An ancient Attic Greek red-figure bell krater in the manner of the Kadmos Painter; Marsyas, seated on rocks plays the double flute (aulos) in a musical contest with Apollo, standing nude with a laurel staff and cloak, holding a lyre towards the satyr; to the left a Muse stands with a torch; to the right Hermes, wearing cloak and petasos and holding the cadeucus; on the reverse are three draped youths.
Athens, Attica.
Ca. 420 – 400 BC.
Beazley identified the Kadmos Painter naming him after the subject on a vase in Berlin. Working in the later 5th century BC, he illustrated many mythological scenes sometimes designed with figures arranged up and down the field. Many vases have been attributed to his hand on the basis of style.
Formerly in the collection of Wladimir Rosenbaum, Switzerland (1894-1984); subsequently in the A. B. Tessin, collection; Cahn auction, Basel, Switzerland, September 16, 2010, lot 230; with Royal-Athena galleries, New York; subsequently in a New York private collection.
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