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SICILIAN OR EARLY PAESTAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER, FROM THE GROUP OF LOUVRE K 240 Satyrs and maenad in an ecstatic thyasoi. Rev: Draped youth and a maenad. The phlyax vases of Magna Graecia are now known to represent actors and staging of Middle Comedy. More than half of the comic vases dating from the third quarter of the 4th century BC were painted in Paestum by Asteas and his circle, who were influenced by the Sicilian Painter of Louvre K 240. Ex collection of J-M R., Dijon, France, acquired in Paris in 1970. Ca. 370 BC H. 14 5/8 in. (37.2 cm.) Diam. 15 in. (38.1 cm.) W. 15 in. (38.1 cm.) 1,000 Years of Ancient Greek Vases II, no. 166 Art of the Ancient World, 2009, no. 118 CP0808 $45,000 Sales |
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