A miscellaneous group of pottery and glass vessels, including a South Italian trefoil-lipped oinochoe, from the workshop of the Baltimore Painter, the body decorated with a draped female moving to the left, holding a lighted torch in her right hand and a large pyxis in her left, scrolls and a large palmette under the handle, repaired -- 10½in. (26.6cm.) high, a miniature skyphos with an applied red painted laurel band, repaired -- 2in. (5cm.) high, both 4th Century B.C., and a group of Roman glass flasks, some damaged, 8½in. (21.6cm.) high max., 1st-4th Century A.D.(a lot)

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A miscellaneous group of pottery and glass vessels, including a South Italian trefoil-lipped oinochoe, from the workshop of the Baltimore Painter, the body decorated with a draped female moving to the left, holding a lighted torch in her right hand and a large pyxis in her left, scrolls and a large palmette under the handle, repaired -- 10½in. (26.6cm.) high, a miniature skyphos with an applied red painted laurel band, repaired -- 2in. (5cm.) high, both 4th Century B.C., and a group of Roman glass flasks, some damaged, 8½in. (21.6cm.) high max., 1st-4th Century A.D.(a lot)

Lot Essay

Item 1: the only vase of this shape in a sub-group (bi) within the T.C. Group, no. 27/496-13a, cf., A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Supp. II, Oxford, 1993, p. 312
See illustration on page ?? for item one

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