APULIAN GREEK RED FIGURE COLUMN KRATER-TL TESTED
Ca. 350-300 BC.
A large and superb Apulian pottery Column krater with a decorative frame. From right to left, on the A-side a scene of a seated draped woman wearing a stylised chiton fastened below her breasts by a belt. Above the belt, the garment is bloused to form a kolpos. Her hair is covered by a kekryphalos. She is holding a wreath in her left hand and a fan in the right. Facing her on the left, a youth wearing a tall pointed cap and a short garment with short sleeves. He is holding a situla in his left hand a laden patera in right. The B-side shows two facing draped youths in conversation. Both of them holding a staffs. Either side of an asymmetric palmette, with palmettes beneath the handles, a band of meander and saltire squares below, a wreath of laurel under the rim. Cf. A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1991, p. 60, no. 213a. Accompanied by a Ralf Kotalla laboratory, TL test confirming its age and authenticity. Item comes with a professional historical report from Ancient Report Specialists.
Size: L:460mm / W:393mm ; 4.3Kg
Provenance: Central London Gallery; formerly in a South English estate collection; acquired in the 1990s from Andre de Munter, Brussels, Belgium; previously in an old European collection- 1960s. Exhibited: Olympia Art & Antiques fair, London June 2022.
Estimate: GBP 20000 - 40000