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CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
Details
TWO APULIAN RED-FIGURED VESSELS
Circa 340-320 B.C.
Including a plate with a female head in profile to the left, wearing an elaborate saccos, a curling tendril falling before her ear, with pendant earrings and a beaded necklace, encircled within a band of wave, a double band of laurel, and a band of short lines; and a lidded mug with a bejeweled winged nude Eros kneeling with his right leg extended behind, his hair in a saccos, a mirror in his raised right hand, a wreath in his left, a band of wave below, a large fanning palmette below the handle, with tendrils on either side, the neck with a band of laurel centered by a rosette; the lid with two female heads in profile to the left, large fanning palmettes in between, a rosette on the knob handle
10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm) diameter, for the first (2)
Circa 340-320 B.C.
Including a plate with a female head in profile to the left, wearing an elaborate saccos, a curling tendril falling before her ear, with pendant earrings and a beaded necklace, encircled within a band of wave, a double band of laurel, and a band of short lines; and a lidded mug with a bejeweled winged nude Eros kneeling with his right leg extended behind, his hair in a saccos, a mirror in his raised right hand, a wreath in his left, a band of wave below, a large fanning palmette below the handle, with tendrils on either side, the neck with a band of laurel centered by a rosette; the lid with two female heads in profile to the left, large fanning palmettes in between, a rosette on the knob handle
10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm) diameter, for the first (2)
Provenance
Fine Antiquities Auction, Superior Galleries, 12 March 1994, lot 308 for the second