Apulischer rotfiguriger Volutenkrater aus der... Lot n° 2

Apulian red-figure volute krater from the Workshop of the Patera and of the Ganymed Painter. 330 - 320 B.C. With plastically formed heads of youths with Phrygian caps on the volutes and four heads of swans on the shoulder. On the frontside in heroic nudity the deceased youth as an athlete inside of a naiskos. Left and right a woman with wreath and box and a youth with mirror and bowl. Above on the shoulder the head of Pan arising from a calyx of leaves, around fanciful tendrils and flowers. On the backside a grave stele between a woman with branch and bowl and a youth with mirror and palm branches. Intensive use of red, white and yellow color. Reassembled from fragments, missing splinters at the cracks and small missing parts are retouched.