![]() ![]() ![]() Behind her, a young, tall, and athletically muscular Pan (identified by his tail and horns) moving in the opposite direction but turning his head toward the center and raising his arm in a greeting gesture. She is wearing bracelets her hair is arranged with a cap, the sakkos. Her upper torso is bare, and a himation with multiple soft folds covers her hips and legs. The god is offering a drinking cup, a kantharos, to a young woman seated in front of him, most probably, his consort Ariadne. On side A, six figures are represented, among them Dionysus, nude, with long locks over his shoulders, a leaning thyrsos on the side and a folded cloak overlapping his left thigh. Margaret Ellen Mayo, The Art of South Italy, Vases fro Magna Greacia.Size: L:243mm / W:263mm 1.3KgProvenance:Ex Private South London Dealer, Ex From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman previously in an old British collection, formed before 2000 on the UK /European art markets.The bell- krater has an egg-and-dart pattern on the rim, a stylized leave wreath below it, palmettes and egg-and-dart pattern at the handles, and a Greek key ornament on the lower part of the body to serve as the ground line for the human figures. The vessel featuring a stylised composite palmettes beneath each handle, frets surrounding the handle terminals, a register of meander below the scenes. The B-side shows two facing draped youths in conversation. Facing her on the left, a naked youth, his head adorned with curly coiffure and a himation draped over his outstretched left arm. She holds a thyrsus in her left hand and a pyxis in her right. She is draped in a diaphanous garment pinned at the shoulders, bedecked with bracelets, a beaded necklace, drop earrings, and ribbons. Above the belt, the garment is bloused to form a kolpos. Side A features a seated maenad, wearing a stylised chiton fastened below her breasts by a belt. An exquisite Apulian bell krater with its surface area painted via the red-figure technique with added fugitive yellow pigment. ![]()
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