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A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER
Lot 430

A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF NAPLES, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.

Closed2 October 2012

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A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF NAPLES, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.
Obverse with a woman running to left, holding a tall casket and a mirror, reverse with a young man riding a horse; palmettes below the handles, key-pattern ground-line and a myrtle wreath around the neck
15 7/8 in. (40.4 cm.) high

Jacques Errera collection, 19th Century, Belgium; thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

PUBLISHED:
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Oxford, 1967, LCS I, ch. 8 no. 796.