Lot 540
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A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURE NESTORIS ATTRIBUTED TO THE DAWLISH PAINTER
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A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURE NESTORIS ATTRIBUTED TO THE DAWLISH PAINTER

325-300 B.C.

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A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURE NESTORIS ATTRIBUTED TO THE DAWLISH PAINTER
325-300 B.C.
Side A: a woman wearing a chiton running to the left, holding a leafy spray and a phiale, quartered discs with dots and dotted circle rosettes in the field
Side B: a naked athlete holding a strigil, running towards an Ionic column to the left
A palmette and tendrils under each handle, the shoulder and neck decorated with friezes of laurel, ivy leaf tendrils and egg and dart, handle repaired
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Abbé H. Campbell Collection, Naples.
Nostell Priory, Wakefield, Yorkshire: sold Christie's London, Greek and Etruscan Vases from Nostell Priory, 30 April 1975, lot 23.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Abbé H. Campbell, Op. cit., no. 11.; A. D. Trendall, LCS, op. cit, p. 157, no. 906, pl. 71, 6.

Trendall describes the almost facial form of the athlete's stomach: "we may note that the trick of emphasizing the nipples and navel...has been carried still further, preparing us for the final stage on...the Nostell nestoris (no. 906) where they look rather like huge staring eyes growing upon a human body".

Ink inscribed label '58' on base.

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