3RD CENTURY B.C.

Details

A HADRA WARE POTTERY HYDRIA
3RD CENTURY B.C.
The neck decorated with brown laurel wreath, the body with panel of laurel branches and row of leaves below, cross-hatched vertical panels flanking each side handle, the rear handle with vertical column of leaves and scrolling tendrils at its base, short strokes on the rim edge, shoulder and side handles, with further bands of encircling lines around the body
16 3/8 in. (41.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. La Gloire d'Alexandrie, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1998, pp. 180-181, no. 129 and p. 183, no. 131; and R. A. Fazzini (et al.), Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1988, pp. 226-227, no. 119 for a discussion of these vases.

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