Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, Vol. XXVI - 2015

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Sout h Italian Red- fig ur e Vas es 108 APULIAN RED-FIGURE VOLUTE KRATER, WORKSHOP OF THE BALTIMORE PAINTER In an Ionic naiskos a female seated upon a capital holds a casket. On the neck a female head emerges from a flowering plant; on each shoulder are two swan-heads. Medusa masks on volutes. Reverse: Two seated females on either side of a stele. Ca. 340-320 BC. H. 26 in. (66 cm.); W. at handles 14 7/8 in. (38 cm) Ex old French collection (Jacques Marcou). Published: K. Schauenburg, Studien zur unteritalischen Vasenmalerei vol. XI-XII, 2008, pl 106; J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVIII, 2007, no. 139.

107 APULIAN LARGE RED-FIGURE CALYX KRATER BY THE WHITE SACCOS PAINTER Seated Apollo with thyrsos and lyre; a female with a situla, and a nude satyr with a torch and a situla. Reverse: A large winged head of a goddess. Ca. 320-310 BC. H. 18 1/8 in. (46 cm.); Diam. 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm.) Ex English collection, Sotheby’s, London, July 10-11, 1989, lot 257; Patricia Kluge collection, Charlottesville, Virginia, acquired from Royal-Athena in 1991. Published: A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, Suppl. II, 1992, no. 29/8c, pl. XCVI, 3-4; J. Eisenberg, 1000 Years of Ancient Greek Vases, 2010, no. 123.

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