An Apulian red-figure volute krater
Circa 4th Century B.C.
The obverse depicting an Ionic naiskos scene, the deceased depicted nude and seated on a chlamys, his right hand outstretched holding a fan, a sash and pilos helmet in the field, flanked on either side by a female figure, each peplos-clad and adorned with jewellery, hair dressed in a kekryphalos and radiate stephane, carrying situlae and mirrors, the reverse with two female figures, similarly attired and carrying mirrors and grapes, flanking a beribboned central stele, the neck decorated on the obverse with a profile female head wearing a kekryphalos and emerging from a campanula flower, band of dotted rosettes above, scrolling palmettes on the reverse of the neck, with a band of laurel with central rosette above, with bands of waves and stopped meander with dotted squares below the main scenes, band of tongues at the shoulder, band of waves beneath the dotted rim, scrolling palmettes beneath the handles, moulded gorgon heads on the volutes and four moulded duck heads on the shoulder framing the handles, details in added white, yellow and red, 63.6cm high注脚Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Auction 459, Lempertz, Cologne, 14 September 1963, lot 725.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.