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Collections

Telos Painter (attributed to the)
Attic Red-Figure Bell-Krater with (A) Unexplained Scene (Two Satyrs Reclining before a Colossal Couch) and (B) Three Youthsearly 4th century B.C.

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Ancient Greek red-figure bell krater, terracotta with black slip glaze, figural scene of robed and helmeted figures on the body above a Greek key border
Red-figure ceramic vessel fragment depicting a reclining male figure wearing a wreath, playing a large lyre; black-figure technique with a Greek meander border along the lower edge.
Close-up detail of a ceramic vessel's rim, showing concentric bands of deep black and reddish-brown slip with two narrow terracotta-orange lines, smooth burnished surface with fine surface wear visible.
Red-figure ceramic bell krater with black glaze ground, depicting three draped standing figures in orange-red slip on the main register, with a Greek key meander band below and egg-and-dot pattern at the rim; two horizontal handles at the sides.
Maker
Telos Painter (attributed to the)
Title
Attic Red-Figure Bell-Krater with (A) Unexplained Scene (Two Satyrs Reclining before a Colossal Couch) and (B) Three Youths
Place Made
Greece, Athens
Date Made
early 4th century B.C.
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 13 7/16 (34.13cm); Diameter: 14 1/4 in. (36.20 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
50.8.37
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture: Greek and Roman
Selected Bibliography
  • Clement, Paul A. "Geryon and Others in Los Angeles." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 24, no.1 (1955): 1-24.
  • Hope, Francis, and E.M.W. Tillyard. The Hope Vases: a Catalogue and a Discussion of the Hope Collection of Greek Vases. Cambridge: University Press, 1923.
  • Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire des Vases Peints Grecs et Étrusques. Paris: E. Leroux, 1922.