A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 340-330 B.C.
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 340-330 B.C. The obverse with the recognition scene between Orestes and his sister Elektra at the tomb of their father Agamemnon, the tomb monument in the form of a fluted beribboned Ionic column on a stepped plinth, upon which sits the grieving Elektra, wearing a himation pulled up over her head, a hydria cradled in her lap and holding a lock of Orestes' hair, Orestes standing to the right dressed as a hunter in high laced boots, chlamys and pilos helmet, a sheathed sword slung over his shoulder, spear in his left hand, red fillet in his right, accompanied by a hound with raised paw, a bust of a Fury in the field above, with snakes on her head and at her shoulders; the reverse with two conversing sandalled and draped youths, wearing fillets; a large palmette below each handle, flanked by framing palmettes, a band of laurel below rim, a band of awave encircling below, details in added white, red and yellow 15½ in. (39 cm.) high
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 340-330 B.C.
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 340-330 B.C. The obverse with the recognition scene between Orestes and his sister Elektra at the tomb of their father Agamemnon, the tomb monument in the form of a fluted beribboned Ionic column on a stepped plinth, upon which sits the grieving Elektra, wearing a himation pulled up over her head, a hydria cradled in her lap and holding a lock of Orestes' hair, Orestes standing to the right dressed as a hunter in high laced boots, chlamys and pilos helmet, a sheathed sword slung over his shoulder, spear in his left hand, red fillet in his right, accompanied by a hound with raised paw, a bust of a Fury in the field above, with snakes on her head and at her shoulders; the reverse with two conversing sandalled and draped youths, wearing fillets; a large palmette below each handle, flanked by framing palmettes, a band of laurel below rim, a band of awave encircling below, details in added white, red and yellow 15½ in. (39 cm.) high
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