TWO APULIAN VESSELS
TWO APULIAN VESSELS

CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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TWO APULIAN VESSELS
circa late 4th century b.c.
Including a red-figure oenochoe (shape 10), circa 340-320 B.C., attributed to the Menzies Group, the ovoid body with a draped woman facing left before an altar, a phiale in her raised right hand, a bunch of grapes in her left, with rosettes in the field, a palmette complex beneath the high handle, with mold-made masks at the join of the handle and beaked-spout, on a raised flaring foot; and a Gnathia Ware epichysis, circa 320-300 B.C., the reel-shaped body with molded ribs on the shoulders, with mold-made lion masks at the join of the handle and beaked-spout, with a framed band of S's on the body, lines on the shoulder flange and vertical lines on the neck in added white and yellow
7.5/8 in. (19.4 cm) high for the first (2)
Provenance
Ariadne Galleries, Inc., for the oenochoe
Charles Ede, Ltd., for the epichysis
Literature
"Greek Antiquities from the Houston Collection," Gallery Guide, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1996, for both.
Trendall and Cambitoglou, The Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, 26/103a, for the oenochoe.
Zewadski, Red Figure Vases in Tampa Bay Collections, Ap. 4, for the oenochoe.
Exhibited
The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, 1985-1992
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1992-1993

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