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A Red-Figure Kalyx Krater, Attributed to the Painter of Rodin 966

Attic, Kertch Style, ca. 360-350 B.C.

Clay, added white

Height: 34.7 cm

Diameter: 28.4 cm (mouth)

Diameter: 12.2 cm (mouth)

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Calyx-krater of slender proportion. On the lip, vertical lines. Inner surface glazed except for a reserved band. The handles are round in section, raised, and curve inwards. Two-degree foot. Fillet around the stem. Hollow and reserved underneath. Under the lip, a reserved laurel-wreath with the leaves pointing to the left. Below the figural scene, between the handles, a band containing, in A, a line of black wave scrolls with dots in the interstices, and in B, a reserved laurel-wreath. A: Bacchic procession. At the head, moving left, a bearded satyr playing the aulos. Behind him, Dionysios, crowned with grapevines, with a himation over his shoulders, rides a white panther striding to left, with its left forepaw raised. The god holds a thyrsos in one hand and a phiale in the other. The last figure is a Maenad dressed in a peplos with apoptygma, holding a large tympanon. B: Three youths draped in himations. On the left, an ephebe turned to the right holding a triangular vase (?). In the middle, an ephebe turned to right holding a strigil. On the right, a third ephebe turned to the left. Large black dot on the faces of the three figures, perhaps to suggest the mouth. Diluted black lines for the contour and details of the figures' bodies. Added white only on side A for the panther, thyrsos, vegetal crowns and scrolls. Attributed to the Painter of Rodin 966. Reassembled from fragments. The vase, placed on a funeral pyre, was shattered into several pieces, some of which, due to the fire, have taken on a gray coloration.

PROVENANCE

Acquired by Captain Charles Huus (b. 1869) in Athens on 10.01.1908 (acquisition document in French, signed, dated and marked with a Greek stamp). Probably the ‘antik Vase af Terracotta’ that Captain Huus mentions in the account of his stopover in Piraeus in the winter of 1907: ‘Et Levnedsløb’ (Copenhagen, 1938), p. 61. An undated photograph (before 1943). Later passed down in the family as a wedding gift.

NOTE

The eponymous vase by the Painter of Rodin 966 (Musée Rodin, inv. no. Co.00215), ARV. 1449.6, offers precise points of resemblance. Compare in particular the face and torso of Dionysus with the figure with pilos. The secondary decoration is identical. For a very close representation of a maenad with tympanum by the Painter of Rodin 966, see the Athens crater (MNA, inv. no. 13893), ARV. 1449,5.

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