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A Campanian red-figure bell Krater, attributed to the Danaid…
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Melbourne
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21-Mar-2015
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A Campanian red-figure bell Krater, attributed to the Danaid Painter, circa 335 B.C. the side a depicting a male acrobat wearing a headband and a short kilt, his body bent backwards into an arch, with ivy leaves in the field side B depicting a swan facing right, with a rosette and ivy leaves in the field each scene enlivened with white paint, with a wave pattern baseline and flanked either side by a split palmette, with small palmettes under the handles, a band of laurel beneath the exterior rim, elsewhere reserved, (losses to surface), 18.4 cm high Exhibited: Melbourne, Museum of Mediterranean Antiquities (Monash University), November 2005 - April 2008; Melbourne, University of Melbourne March 1995 - July 2003 Provenance: ex Graham Geddes collection; Sotheby's London May 22 1989, Lot 199
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Antiquities: Roman