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An Attic black-figure column Krater, attributed to the swing…
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Melbourne
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21-Mar-2015
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An Attic black-figure column Krater, attributed to the swing Painter, circa 530 B.C. side a depicting a crimson-haired and bearded charioteer departing in a quadriga accompanied by six male attendants, including a crimson-haired youth to the far left, two crimson-bearded male figures at centre left, a white-bearded male figure at centre, and to the far right a crimson-haired young boy and a youth holding a staff side B depicting a white-bearded and a crimson-bearded man seated facing one another on cross-over stools (diphros), separated by a central palm tree and flanked by a further two, with a white-bearded attendant to the far left and a young crimson-haired male attendant to the far right each scene framed by bands of decoration and enlivened with white and crimson paint to the hair of the figures and elsewhere, with bands of decoration covering the rim and at the base of the neck, palmettes on the projecting handle lugs, rays emanating from the base, neck and lower body reserved, (losses to surface, chips and hairline cracks), 30.5 cm high Provenance: ex Graham Geddes collection; ex Matrakis collection December 2008; Sotheby's London 13-14 July 1987, Lot 440
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