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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED LEBES GAMIKOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE LONG OVERFALLS, CIRCA 370 B.C.
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED LEBES GAMIKOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE LONG OVERFALLS, CIRCA 370 B.C.
The obverse with Eros in between a seated draped female, perhaps Aphrodite, and a standing male, both facing inward, the nude god standing in a laver, his wings outstretched, holding a wreath in his extended left hand, the male to the right holding a frond, leaning on a staff, the female to the left holding a mirror behind her, offering an egg to Eros, her bent elbow resting on the basin, a quartered ball in the field, a band of dotted ovolo above, the shoulders with two confronting female heads in profile, a palmette in between; the reverse with a winged nude Eros and a standing draped maenad, Eros stepping forward over a tendril, holding a vine in his right hand, the maenad to the left holding a phiale and a thyrsos, a quartered ball with dots in the field, the shoulders with palmettes; a band of meander with crossed-squares below; palmette complexes and two quartered balls below the inverted U-shaped handles, each centered by a knob finial with vertical lines at the base, flanked by conical knobbed finials with rosettes, details in added white and yellow
11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE LONG OVERFALLS, CIRCA 370 B.C.
The obverse with Eros in between a seated draped female, perhaps Aphrodite, and a standing male, both facing inward, the nude god standing in a laver, his wings outstretched, holding a wreath in his extended left hand, the male to the right holding a frond, leaning on a staff, the female to the left holding a mirror behind her, offering an egg to Eros, her bent elbow resting on the basin, a quartered ball in the field, a band of dotted ovolo above, the shoulders with two confronting female heads in profile, a palmette in between; the reverse with a winged nude Eros and a standing draped maenad, Eros stepping forward over a tendril, holding a vine in his right hand, the maenad to the left holding a phiale and a thyrsos, a quartered ball with dots in the field, the shoulders with palmettes; a band of meander with crossed-squares below; palmette complexes and two quartered balls below the inverted U-shaped handles, each centered by a knob finial with vertical lines at the base, flanked by conical knobbed finials with rosettes, details in added white and yellow
11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 25 January 1979, lot 33.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 5 December 1979, lot 56.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 5 December 1979, lot 56.
Literature
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Vol. II, Oxford, 1982, p. 1044, no. 155a.
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