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Apulian Bell Krater

Date

about 340 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta; ancient lead repair

Culture

South Italian (Apulian)

Department

Vessels

Institution

Getty Museum

A: woman seated left on drapery over a rock, which is outlined in white. She wears a sleeveless chiton, girt at the waist, and a hair-covering (kekryphalos), and holds a mirror in her right hand and a wreath, from which hangs a fillet, in her left. In the field are a fillet and a rosette. B: head of a woman in profile to right. She wears a kekryphalos with radiate stephane in white; a ribbon tied around the bunch of hair, which emerges at the back; a large pendant earring; and a necklace; all in added white. In the field are a rosette below and a window above; to right, two palmette-scrolls. Reconstructed from fragments, with some restoration on foot. Some cracking in glaze, particularly in areas around handle-roots. Foot broken and repaired in antiquity with lead rivets; underside reserved; some tan incrustation. Overall red-brown wash. Flaring rim, upswung horizontal handles, partly reserved on inside and between roots; slightly convex curve to body before it tapers to join the stem, where there is a narrow reserved band; ring foot with reserved groove at top; reserved band at lower edge. Interior of mouth: two reserved stripes. Under rim: continuous band of black chevrons on reserved background. Below pictures: black wave on reserved band. After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).

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