MID-AUGUSTAN, CIRCA 15 B.C.-40 A.D.

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A LARGE ROMAN ARRETINE RED SLIP WARE POTTERY BOWL
MID-AUGUSTAN, CIRCA 15 B.C.-40 A.D.
The deep bowl on ring foot, decorated in relief with an encircling figural composition, a bearded man with staff seated on a raised stool with sphinx arm-supports, in front a boar's head on a table and a standing youth with cloak over his shoulder, a group of travellers comprising a man leaning on his staff facing two seated men wearing caps, one with tall staff, behind a seated youth with shield at his side flanked by standing figures wearing caps, and a further two male figures, one resting with foot raised on a rock, his cloak and cap slung over his shoulder facing a seated youth with shield opposite, the maker's stamp RASIN in the field, the broad vertical carinated rim with two Dionysos mask appliqués and two figures of Eros, on ring foot
5¾ in. (14.7 cm.) high; 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Cf. A. Oxé, H. Comfort and P. Kenrick, Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum: A catalogue of the signatures, shapes and chronology of Italian sigillata, 2nd ed., Bonn, 2000, p. 353, no. 1623, 8-17 for examples of the RASIN workshop stamp from Arezzo. This is thought to be the longest lasting Arezzo workshop at this period.

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