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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,042
MAGNA GRAECIA, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY BC
12" (Ceramic, 2.2 kg, 31 cm diameter).
A well-painted red figure ware bell krater with restrained use of white slip detailing; laurel motif encircling rim; wave motif along groundline; tongues around handles; palmette complex beneath either handle. Side A: showing the figure of a female facing right, holding a coffer in her left hand and a thyrsus in her right, draped in a chiton, her hair dressed in a kekryphalos, a scarf draped over her left arm; opposite, a seated naked male youth holding a budding branch in his right hand. Side B: two confronting male figures wraped in himatia, both wearing bandeaux and leaning on long staffs flanking a central column with a scarf around, with a casket and ivy leaf in the field.
PROVENANCE:
Ex Barker collection; acquired in the 1970's-1980's.
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