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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A NAPLES (GUISTINIANI) CREAMWARE AMPHORA VASE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The globular body with a flared cylindrical neck with two loop handles and a further handle at the back, painted with a view of the erupting Vesuvius seen through the ruins of a large temple with figures in the foreground, within a chequer-pattern cartouche on a pale-brown ground with stencilled dark-brown foliage and anthemion between bands of stylised stiff-leaves, the lower part of the vase and domed foot in dark brown (consolidated crack to lower part of body at back, lower part of base and foot with restoration)
20 in. (51 cm.) high
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The globular body with a flared cylindrical neck with two loop handles and a further handle at the back, painted with a view of the erupting Vesuvius seen through the ruins of a large temple with figures in the foreground, within a chequer-pattern cartouche on a pale-brown ground with stencilled dark-brown foliage and anthemion between bands of stylised stiff-leaves, the lower part of the vase and domed foot in dark brown (consolidated crack to lower part of body at back, lower part of base and foot with restoration)
20 in. (51 cm.) high
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Tom Johans
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