Auction 85
ANTIQUITIES
Dec 14, 2020
(your local time)
Italy
Bertolami Fine Art, 1 Harewood Place, Mayfair (London W1S 1BU- United Kingdom), or 14 Hanover Square, Mayfair, (London, W1S 1HP - United Kingdom).
Terms of sale
View demo
Auction Times:
14th December 2020 - 2 pm GMT (3 pm
CST)
The auction has ended
|
LOT 32:
APULIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER ;WITH EROS
|
|
|
Sold for: £3,500
Start price:
£
2,500
Auction house commission: 25%
More details
|
APULIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER ;WITH EROS
Chevron Group, third quarter of 4th cen tury BC
height cm 22,5; diam. cm 24
Extremelly fine krater, intact. The main decoration is arranged on both sides of the body. On one side, there is the depiction of a winged Eros, flying towards left. He holds a situla and a tympanum. On the other side, the head of a woman, in profile, adorned with a diadem, earrings and a necklace. In front of her, a mirror. Published in: A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, III, Oxford 1982, p. 659, n. 99, pl. 245, 3-4. Provenance: English private collection, bought from Arete Gallery in Zurich, on 8 December 1972, copy of the invoice with original old photos taken by Walter Dräyer; on the invoice is written: "Professor Dr. A.D. Trendall, Australia, will give an exact classification on the painter. We have sent him photographs".
