Bell-krater
Category
Ceramics
Date
350 BC - 300 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
380 x 375 x 375 mm
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532421
Summary
Vase, Italo-Greek bell krater. Side a[ seated Maenad and young satyr, side b] two youths. Second half of 4th century BC. Apulian greek, A P Group. South Italian bell krater – 450-400BC. The obverse image is a woman (maenad) wearing a chiton, seated on a rock. She holds a tympanon (tambourine). She is accompanied by a satyr, who holds out a kantharos (wine cup with two handles and a deep bowl) and basket, his foot resting on a rock. A sash hangs in the background. On the reverse is an image of two draped youths leaning on staffs facing each other. Above there hangs a writing tablet. Circular base, wide rim and two small handles. George Hammond Lucy, having been given by Lord Brooke of Warwick, a catalogue of Greek Vases and other artefacts to be sold in London, purchased some of the vases which are now in the Library. On 12 July 1838 he paid to Messrs. Brown, Scagliola Works, University Street, London, the sum of £125 for four vases. Some of the other vases were bought in Italy in 1842.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.