Beschreibung:

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED VOLUTE-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE VIRGINIA EXHIBITION PAINTER, CIRCA 330-300 B.C.
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED VOLUTE-KRATER ATTRIBUTED TO THE VIRGINIA EXHIBITION PAINTER, CIRCA 330-300 B.C. The obverse with an armed warrior in added white beside his rearing horse within an Ionic naiskos, wearing a short red chiton, a crested helmet, holding an oval shield, his greaves hanging behind, a sprouting flower below, the podium with a band of key, a draped female seated to the left with a fan in her raised left hand and a situla in her lowered right, a nude satyr to the right stepping forward onto his bent right leg, holding a thyrsos in his right hand and an oinochoe in his left, a band of palmettes on the shoulders, the neck with Helios clad in a tunic emerging from a blossom amidst elaborate scrolling, a band of laurel centered by a rosette, a band of bead-and-reel, and a band of wave above, ovolo on the rim; the reverse with two draped youths on either side of a filleted stele, the podium with a band of palmettes; a band of stopt meander encircling below, a band of tongues on the shoulders, palmettes on the neck, a band of laurel centered by a rosette and a band of wave above, ovolo on the rim, palmettes below the handles, molded duck heads on the shoulders framing the handles, the volutes with molded gorgon heads, in added white and framed by scrolling on the obverse, in red on the reverse; details in added white, yellow and red 39½ in. (100.3 cm.) high