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Important Apulian very-large red-figure volute krater by the Baltimore Painter Important Apulian very-large red-figure volute krater by the Baltimore Painter
IMPORTANT APULIAN VERY LARGE RED-FIGURE VOLUTE KRATER BY THE BALTIMORE PAINTER

The contest for Adonis: Aphrodite with umbrella, Eros, Hermes, Adonis holding a bird on a string, Zeus enthroned holding a scepter with eagle, a thunderbolt in the field before him, Persephone resting on a scepter topped by a cross, tree. Below. Dionysos and Ariadne in a panther biga, preceded by a maenad with a tambourine and thyrsos and followed by a maenad with a torch and a situla. On the neck, an amazonomachy.
Rev: In a naiskos, helmeted horseman with spear. At left: from top to bottom, youth holding an oinochoe and a pyxis with a white lid, woman holding a wreath, phiale, and fillet, youth holding a situla. At the right, a youth holding an oinochoe and pyxis with a white lid, woman holding a wreath and a mirror, youth holding a white knotted stick. On the neck, women holding a thyrsos, open box and ball (probably of wool), seated youth holding a phiale and thyrsos, woman holding a thrysos and wreath, satyr holding situla and torch.
Published: A. Trendall-Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, Suppl. II, p. 275, no. 23f, pl. LXXI, 3-4; J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. VI , 1991, no. 74.

NOTE: Included with the vase is a custom-made stand (H. 27 in.) of the rare hardwood Pomele Sapele.

Ex S.B. collection, San Diego, CA., acquired from Royal-Athena in 1991.

Ca. 340 BC

H. 44 in. (112 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2012, no. 117
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Important Apulian very-large red-figure volute krater by the Baltimore Painter Important Apulian very-large red-figure volute krater by the Baltimore Painter
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