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Bell krater with Dionysos and retinue
Bell krater with Dionysos and retinue

Bell krater with Dionysos and retinue

ArtistAttributed to the Meleager Painter
Datecirca 400–370 BCE
MediumTerracotta, red-figure
DimensionsH. 15 1/2 x Max. Diam of body 15 3/4 in. (39.4 x 40 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen
Object numberG.57.14.25
On View
On view
ProvenanceWith Spink & Sons, London, 1942 (per Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, 1942, p.873); [Sale, London, Sotheby's, June 27, 1955, lot 123]; Sale, New York, O'Reilly's Plaza Art Galleries, Dec. 8, 1955, lot 125, illus. (b-w); Dr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Guilford, CT; given to NCMA, 1957.Published ReferencesJ. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, Vol. 2, 2nd edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 1410, no. 22-a, 1415.

Katherine Nelson, research paper on "Pottery from classical Greek culture in the collections of the NCMA," 1981 (see research file on classical sculpture in the permanent collection).

See Reference Library for K.M. Nelson’s notes on Classical Pottery (Classical Studies, Prof. Dr. Younger 1981)
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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