CRATER WITH RED-FIGURE COLUMNS Greek art, Magna Graecia, Apulia, attributed to the snub-nose painter, third quarter 4th century BC Columned black-glazed terracotta krater decorated on the neck with a garland of ivy leaves, and on the shoulder with a frieze of tongues surmounting a scene framed by friezes of dots and meanders. On side A, a naked young man (Dionysus?), wearing a headband, carrying a himation on his left arm and holding a thyrseus and a crown, turns towards a maenad dressed in a peplos, wearing a cecryphal headdress, adorned with a necklace and holding a fan and a covered basin. Side B depicts a scene of conversation between two young men draped in the himation. Old collection patina. Height: 49.5 cm Provenance: Former Ch. Rothenberger collection, Switzerland, 1960-1980 Cahn Auktionen AG, 19 September 2008: no. 187 (ill.) Christian Levett Collection, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins Exhibitions: Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011-August 2023 Bibliography: J. Boardman, "Greek Art" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 60, fig. 11 For a very similar crater attributed to the same painter, see the Musée du Louvre (inv. ED 628). An Apulian red-figured column-krater, attributed to the Snub-Nose painter, Third quarter of the 4th century B.C.