An Apulian red-figure bell krater

An Apulian red-figure bell krater

circa 4th century BC

decorated a draped woman holding a thyrsus and tympanum whilst leaning on a scallop shape support facing a nude youth wearing a horned headdress and holding a ribboned wreath and a phiale, enlivened with a yellow slip, the other side with two draped young men, each with a staff, palmettes under the handles, the baseline with meander and saltire, and a band a laurel under the rim,

28cm high,

and a similar Apulian red-figure bell krater, circa 4th century BC, decorated a nude male holding a ribboned wreath and a phiale with drapery over his left arm facing a draped woman holding a wreath, the other side with two draped youths, one with a staff, the baseline with meander and saltire and with a band of laurel under the rim, 29cm high. (2)

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, Antiquities, 8th / 9th December 1986, lot 196.

Private Collection, London.