Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater

A: nude youth seated to left on folded drapery. He holds a phiale in his right hand and in his left, a branch of berried laurel to which a fillet has been tied at both ends. In the field are three rosettes, a looped fillet, a dot-cluster, and, at bottom right, a phiale. The ground line consists of white dots.

B: female head in profile to left, wearing a kekryphalos decorated with two rows of black dots. A white ribbon is tied around the bunch of hair at the back. Over the hair at the front is a radiate stephane in added white. In the upper left field are a pair of jumping weights (halteres) with a white dot at the center, and a white ivy leaf. In the field below is an ivy leaf; its stem, veins, and the two tendrils around it are in added white. In the upper right field are a three-dot cluster and a second pair of halteres. Below is a plant with berries; the stem, tendrils, berries, and details on the leaves are white, much of which has worn off.

Flaring rim, upswung horizontal handles, body curving sharply inward to stem; foot with groove at top. Under rim: laurel wreath to left between reserved bands. Below pictures: reverse-wave pattern between reserved bands all around the vase. Below handles: palmette-fans with two side-scrolls and smaller fans, which serve to frame pictures. Around handle-roots: black tongues; between handle-roots: reserved area.

After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).