Property from a European Private Collection
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER, ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 350-320 B.C.
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER, ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 350-320 B.C.
painted with Dionysos seated on a scrolling plant and holding a thyrsos in the right hand and a wreath and fruit in the left, the satyr before him offering him a fruit and holding a thyrsos, a sprig of ivy above, two draped conversing youths leaning on staffs on the reverse, one holding a vine branch, details in added yellow, white, and red.
Height 35.6 cm.
Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, probably acquired in 1819 (Christie’s, London, Greek and Etruscan Vases from Nostell Priory, April 30th, 1975, no. 29, illus.)
Long Island Private Collection (Sotheby’s, New York, June 12th, 1993, no. 130, illus.)
Japanese Private Collection (Sotheby’s, New York, June 4th, 2014, no. 27, illus.)
acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Published
A. D. Trendall, Paestan Addenda, Rome, 1959, p. 4, no. A14
A. D. Trendall, Red-figured Vases of Paestum, Rome, 1987, p. 157, no. 255, pl. 96 a-b