Bell Krater: A, Orestes at the Altar of Apollo at Delphi; B, Three standing Men

ca. 375 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium: Terracotta, red-figure with added red and white slip
Dimensions: 14 9/16 × 14 9/16 × 15 3/16 in. (37 × 37 × 38.6 cm)
Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
Accession Number: 1994.11.1
Culture: Greek, South Italian, Apulian
Period: Late Classical
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Reportedly Raymond Duncan (1874–1966), and by descent within the family; sold to Robert Hecht (1919–2012), Paris, 1960s [see note 1]; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1994

Note 1: Letter from Robert Hecht, Paris, to the Gallery, February 18, 1994, copy in accession file

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Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, "Hounded by Furies," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1997–98), 18–29, fig. 1a–b, 2, 3

"Acquisitions, January 1994–December 1995," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96), 154–55, ill

Haiganuch Sarian, "Iconographie Classique et identités regionales: Réflexions sur l'iconographie des Erinyes dans le milieu grec, italiote, et étrusque," Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 14 (1986), 25-35

Arthur Dale Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), 25, fig. 19a

Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1882), 648

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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Object/Work type

bell kraters

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