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Collections

Nostell Painter (attributed to the)
Red-Figure Bell-Krater with (A) a Symposium and (B) Three Youths Conversingcirca 400-380 B.C.

Not on view
Ancient Greek red-figure bell krater, terracotta with black slip glaze, depicting five figures in a banquet scene with a Greek key border below
Red-figure bell krater with black glaze, featuring a frieze of figures in a symposium scene: a standing figure playing aulos at center, flanked by reclining and seated figures on couches, bordered above by an egg-and-dart pattern and below by a Greek key meander.
Red-figure bell krater with black glaze ground, two horizontal handles, and a wide flaring mouth. The main panel depicts three draped figures in terracotta against black, flanked by egg-and-dart and Greek key border patterns at the rim and base.

Nostell Painter (attributed to the), Red-Figure Bell-Krater with (A) a Symposium and (B) Three Youths Conversing, circa 400-380 B.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Randolph Hearst Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Nostell Painter (attributed to the)
Title
Red-Figure Bell-Krater with (A) a Symposium and (B) Three Youths Conversing
Place Made
Greece, Attica
Date Made
circa 400-380 B.C.
Medium
Red-figure ceramic with added red and white
Dimensions
Height: 13 1/2 in. (34.29 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
50.8.34
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture: Greek and Roman
Selected Bibliography
  • Magaloni, Diana and Michael Govan, eds. Picasso Rivera: Conversations Across Time. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
  • Magaloni, Diana, Michael Govan, and Miguel Fernámdez Félix, eds. Picasso & Rivera: Conversaciones a Través del Tiempo. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.
  • 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.