AN APULIAN RED FIGURE BELL KRATER IN THE MANNER OF THE VARRESE PAINTER
CIRCA MID-4TH CENTURY B.C.
AN APULIAN RED FIGURE BELL KRATER IN THE MANNER OF THE VARRESE PAINTER CIRCA MID-4TH CENTURY B.C. Side A: a draped female figure sits on a rocky outcrop, wearing pendant necklace and earrings, her hair bound up in a kekryphalos, with top-knot emerging above, a radiate stephane above her forehead, holding a large phiale in outstretched left hand, a thyrsos in her right, she faces a standing figure of a satyr, naked with pointed ears and bushy tail, his weight on right leg, left leg bent at the knee, holding situla in left hand and ribboned torch in left, his hair bound in a berried fillet with ribbons trailing behind, a large flowering plant between them, window, rosette, grape cluster and ivy leaf in the field above Side B: two draped youths, each carrying a long staff, standing between a stele, a writing tablet bound with horizontal stylus above, a pair of jumping weights and a quartered disc with dots either side, a palm frond in the field Meander frieze with crossed and dotted squares below, a laurel wreath below the rim, palmettes with scrolling tendrils either side below each handle, details in added white 15 in. (38 cm.) high
AN APULIAN RED FIGURE BELL KRATER IN THE MANNER OF THE VARRESE PAINTER
CIRCA MID-4TH CENTURY B.C.
AN APULIAN RED FIGURE BELL KRATER IN THE MANNER OF THE VARRESE PAINTER CIRCA MID-4TH CENTURY B.C. Side A: a draped female figure sits on a rocky outcrop, wearing pendant necklace and earrings, her hair bound up in a kekryphalos, with top-knot emerging above, a radiate stephane above her forehead, holding a large phiale in outstretched left hand, a thyrsos in her right, she faces a standing figure of a satyr, naked with pointed ears and bushy tail, his weight on right leg, left leg bent at the knee, holding situla in left hand and ribboned torch in left, his hair bound in a berried fillet with ribbons trailing behind, a large flowering plant between them, window, rosette, grape cluster and ivy leaf in the field above Side B: two draped youths, each carrying a long staff, standing between a stele, a writing tablet bound with horizontal stylus above, a pair of jumping weights and a quartered disc with dots either side, a palm frond in the field Meander frieze with crossed and dotted squares below, a laurel wreath below the rim, palmettes with scrolling tendrils either side below each handle, details in added white 15 in. (38 cm.) high
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