AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED ASKOS

ASSOCIATED TO THE 'STOKE ON TRENT' GROUP, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED ASKOS
ASSOCIATED TO THE 'STOKE ON TRENT' GROUP, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
With a figure of Eros running to the left chasing a swan, scrolling palmette under the handle, band of dotted ovolo below the rim, details in added white and yellow
8 3/5 in. (21.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Castellani collection, Rome, gifted to the school prior to 1885.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
T.M. Lindsay, ‘Art teaching at Rugby School’, in, The Art Journal, New Series, XLVII, London, 1885, p. 49.

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