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Bell-Krater with Dionysos and His Retinue
Bell-Krater with Dionysos and His Retinue

Bell-Krater with Dionysos and His Retinue

Datecirca 400–370 BCE
MediumTerracotta, red-figure
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 15 3/8 × 17 × 16 in. (39.07 × 43.17 × 40.64 cm)
diameter (exterior rim): 16 in. (40.64 cm)
diameter (interior rim): 14 1/2 in. (36.83 cm)
height and diameter (foot): 1 7/8 × 7 5/8 in. (4.78 × 19.39 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen
Object numberG.57.14.25
On View
On view
ProvenanceProvenience unknown. [Spink & Sons, London, 1942][1]; [Sotheby’s, London, June 27, 1955, no. 123]; [sale, O’Reilly’s Plaza Art Galleries, New York, December 8, 1955, no. 125, illus. (b-w)]; Dr. Fred Olsen (1891–1986) and Mrs. Florence Quittenton (d. 1996), Guilford, CT; given to NCMA, 1957.

[1] Per Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, 1942, p. 873.
Published ReferencesJ.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942) 873, no. 2.

J.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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