Lukan red-figure bell crater of the Cyclops painter.... Lot 3

Lukan red-figure bell crater of the Cyclops painter. 420 - 410 BC. H 33,7cm, ø 34,1cm. On the front a young woman with jackets stands between two naked young athletes, both with walking stick, the left one additionally with tänie. At the back three coat young men in conversation. Composed of fragments, small missing parts are retouched. In Germany since 2019; ex Pierre Bergé & Associés Auction Paris May 16, 2018, lot 204; from the Swiss private collection M. C., Geneva (d. 1989), acquired in the 1960s. Listed in the Arthur D. Trendall Archive at La Trobe University Melbourne with the number ALR S00200218. On the Cyclopean painter, see A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily (1967) pp. 25-29; A. D. Trendall, Red-Figured Vases from Lower Italy and Sicily - A Handbook (1990) figs. 9-10. It is interesting to note that here a woman apparently has access to the palestra area. This motif, which appears several times in Lucan vase painting (Trendall, Handbook figs. 10; 12; 14 and 21), casts some doubt on our notion of strictly separated gender worlds.