Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
07-08 July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/601
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    towards the ground, and near Artemis Leto, veiled and holding a sceptre; to the left of Apollo are Hera, also veiled and sceptred, and Hermes approaching her with his caduceus in his hand: white is used for the flesh and chiton of Artemis, for the wreaths and for the column: on the reverse of the vase are three athletes carelessly drawn, one holding a strigil and another a pair of acontia on the side of the foot of the vase is an incised inscription Xapitwv; Attic work of the early part of the IV cent.p.c. [Pi. I] 1 The vase is published by Millingen, Vases de Coghill, plate 11: after Millingen, reduced, Reinach, Répertoire des Vases peints, IT, p. 4. 197... A the vase is otherwise intact; on the obverse, Dionysos is seated looking at a Maenad who plays the tympanon, while another Maenad crowns him; to the left, Eros seated ; below him an altar, and farther to the left two youths, one of them bearing thyrsus and fillet; white is used for the flesh of the women and of Eros; on the reverse of the vase, three carelessly drawn figures of youths ; Attic work of the early LIV cent. B.c. 1 red figured Column-Krater, 18 in. high, intact; on the obverse, the departure of a warrior; he wears a short stiff chiton, a chlamys and boots; his spear is in his hand, and his shield rests against his thigh; to the left, his companion wearing a similar chiton, carrying two spears, and mounted on a horse; to the right of the principal figure, a lady carrying a large vase of the shape known as_ nestoris, decorated with three dancing figures; beside her is a little boy, dressed in the same kind of chiton as the other two male figures, looking up at his mother and raising his hand to her; in the field is part of a shield; on the reverse of the vase are three youths dressed in the himation and carrying sticks; on mouth and neck of the vase, bold black ivy-patterns; Italiote Greek (Lucanian) work of the Ay cent. B.C., an interesting specimen and there is a little repainting in the legs of the figures ; on the obverse is a woman, carrying a mirror and a wicker box, standing between two young warriors; one of them is seated and holds a pair of spears and a burning torch, the other stands with one foot raised and resting on a rock, a pair of spears in his left hand, a shield in his right; both youths wear short stiff chitons and conical hats; on the reverse of the vase, three youths wearing the himation ; Ttaliote Greek (Apulian) work of the later part of the LV cent. B.C. 1
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