Vases

Greek

A Greek red-figure bell krater attributed to the Creusa Painter, Lucanian, circa 390 - 370 BC

Pottery

Height: 33 cm

The front depicts a youth seated on a klismos and playing the lyre, a woman stands behind him crowning him with a wreath and holding an oinochoe, another woman dances...

The front depicts a youth seated on a klismos and playing the lyre, a woman stands behind him crowning him with a wreath and holding an oinochoe, another woman dances in front of him. There are three draped youths on the reverse.

Provenance

Milo John Reginald Talbot, 7th Baron Talbot of Malahide (1912 – 1973) collection, Ireland

Thence by descent to the honourable Rose Talbot (1916 – 2009), Malahide Castle, Ireland

Christie’s, London, 27 April 1976, lot 208, pl. 18

With Geoffrey Turner, Galerij Ancient Art B. V., Amsterdam

Amsterdam private collection, acquired from the above on 24th January 1980

Literature

The Amykos Painter is arguably the most important of the early Lucanian vase-painters, and he is a figure of considerable influence in the history of Early South Italian vase-painting. The painter takes his name from a hydria now in the Cabinet des Médailles (442), which depicts on its shoulder a representation of the punishment of Amykos. The Amykos Painter, to whom there are now over 200 vases ascribed to his hand, learnt his craft from the Pisticci Painter, the first known South Italian artist. In style and subject the Amykos Painter closely followed his master’s manner decorating bell-kraters with subjects associated with Dionysus, the palaestra and daily life. However, his own characteristic style is prominent in his treatment of the rendering of drapery, and the treatments of youths on the reverse side.

Publications

A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, 1967, p. 92, no. 478

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