VesselsGreek4th century BCE

Red-figure Bell Krater: Seated Woman with a Flowering Branch

390-380 BCE

Description

Side A: In the center a woman seated on a rock to right looking back. She wears a chiton, opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and shoes, and rests her right hand on the rock while in her left she holds a flower branch. At the left, facing her, stands a nude youth wearing a fillet in his hair, holding his cloak over his left arm and carrying a strigil in his right. At the right another woman clad like the first but without the shoes, holding a flower in her right hand and a diadem or wreath in her left. Plants are growing on the rock, and on the rock and above the design are yellow engobes. In the field a wheel? Side B: Three mantle figures wearing fillets, the central figure with a staff, that on the right holding a strigil. Inside rim, two narrow reserved bands. Outside rim, lateral leaf border. Above picture on Side A ovolo border and below on each side meander and saltire squares border. At joint of handles a tongue pattern and below a palmette. Applied yellow is used for the fillets, necklaces, bracelets, earring, and flower. Hair outline reserved in all figures. Drawing on B greatly inferior to that of A.

Classification

Vessels

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek

Period

Classical period, Late

Century

4th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art