An Attic red-figure column krater
Attributed to the Orchard Painter, circa 500-450 B.C.
The obverse depicting two couples in profile, the females in the centre and facing outwards towards their male counterparts, on the right a bearded male wearing a fillet and himation and holding a staff, facing towards a heavily swathed female, wearing a sakkos to cover her wavy hair, gesturing towards the male and holding a red fillet between her hands, on the left another heavily draped female, holding a plemochoe in her right hand and facing a himation-clad bearded male wearing a fillet in his hair and holding a staff, the reverse with a youth facing a bearded man bearing a staff, another youth approaching from the left, all draped in himatia, both scenes flanked by double vertical bands of ivy, band of tongues above, hanging lotus buds on the neck above the obverse, ivy on the edge of the rim, a chain of lotus buds running around the rim, a scrolling palmette atop each handle, details in added red, 44cm high注脚Provenance:
Berlin art market.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired prior to 1988.
Beazley Archive no. 205890.

Published:
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, no. 523.12BIS.