established 1942

ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER BY THE MARLEY PAINTER

Dionysos holding thyrsos and kantharos looks to the left at a maenad playing a lyre, at right a nude satyr grasps a maenad; around the lip, black-figure bulls and felines.
Rev: A procession of thress draped youths one holding a torch.
Cf. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, pp. 1088-89 for related pieces featuring satyrs and maenads.

Intact and in an excellent state of preservation.

Ex collection of J-M R., Dijon France, acquired in Paris in 1970.

Ca. 450 BC

H. 14 1/8 in. (36 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2008, no. 127
CPF02
$75,000


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