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| APULIAN LARGE RED-FIGURE VOLUTE KRATER BY THE BALTIMORE PAINTER Within an Ionic naiskos with a departure scene, the youth on the left holding his spear in the left hand and wearing a long red mantle, his domed helmet behind, the man seated at right offering him his sheathed sword, and wearing a himation and holding a long staff, the pediment above decorated with palmette acroteria and a central frontal head, the naiskos flanked by a standing maiden and youth holding a situla and patera and a sash and a staff respectively, the neck ornamented with a profile female head emerging from an elaborate spray of scrolling tendrils and flowering plants; side Reverse: an altar surmounted by a basin and flanked by standing chiton-clad women, the lady on the left holding a tambourine and a fan, on the right a rosette garland and a thyrsos. Pub: D. Trendall-Cambitoglou, Red-figure Vase-painters of Apulia, Second Supplement p. 124, no. 49-8. Ex American collection, sold Sotheby’s, June 20 1990, no.75; S.B. collection, San Diego, CA. Ca. 340-330 BC. H. 30 3/8 in. (77.2 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2012, no. 115 BS1103C SOLD |
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