AN ETRUSCAN HYDRIA FROM THE PRAXIAS GROUP, depicting a winged female daimon (Vanth?) holding a snake, dressed in a peplos, pursuing a running woman with head turned back, the shoulder panel decorated with a scene of a naked youth, cloak over his right arm aiming a spear at a centaur whose head is turned back and holds a long branch

AN ETRUSCAN HYDRIA FROM THE PRAXIAS GROUP, depicting a winged female daimon (Vanth?) holding a snake, dressed in a peplos, pursuing a running woman with head turned back, the shoulder panel decorated with a scene of a naked youth, cloak over his right arm aiming a spear at a centaur whose head is turned back and holds a long branch

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AN ETRUSCAN HYDRIA FROM THE PRAXIAS GROUP, depicting a winged female daimon (Vanth?) holding a snake, dressed in a peplos, pursuing a running woman with head turned back, the shoulder panel decorated with a scene of a naked youth, cloak over his right arm aiming a spear at a centaur whose head is turned back and holds a long branch
circa 450 B.C.
17½in. (44.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. M. Cristofani, "La Ceramica a figure rosse" in M. Martelli (ed.), La Ceramica degli Etruschi, 1987, pp. 43-53, pls. 138-141; J. G. Szilágyi, "Die Welt der Etrusker", Ausstellungskat, Berlin, 1988, 245ff. Cf. a similar hydria from the Praxias Group now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, GR26.1952. For Vanth cf. I. Krauskopf, Todesdämonen und Totengötter im vorhellenistischen Etrurien, 1987, 78ff.; and E. Paschinger, "Die etruskische Todesgöttin Vanth", Antike Welt, 19, 1988, 39ff.

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