A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED WEST COAST COLLECTION
A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE AMYKOS PAINTER, CIRCA 420-400 B.C.

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A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE AMYKOS PAINTER, CIRCA 420-400 B.C.
15 ½ in. (39.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), Naples and London, acquired by 1795.
Thomas Hope (1769-1831), London and Deepdene; thence by descent to Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1866-1941), Deepdene.
The Celebrated Collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian Sculpture and Ancient Vases being a portion of The Hope Heirlooms; Christie's, London, 23-24 July 1917, lot 83.
with Spink, London, acquired from the above (according to the auctioneer's book).
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 13 May 1980, lot 248.
Private Collection, Santa Monica.
Acquired by the current owner by 1993.
Literature
W. Tischbein, Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases...now in the possession of Sir William Hamilton, Naples, 1795, Vol. III, no. 27.
Ch. Lenormant and J. de Witte, Élite des monuments céramographiques, Paris, 1844-61, IV, pl. 57.
E.M.W. Tillyard, The Hope Vases, Cambridge, 1923, p. 110, no. 207, pl. 29.
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, London, 1967, p. 45, no. 224.
A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Third Supplement (Consolidated), London, 1983, p. 12, no. 224.

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