EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE HYDRIA
EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Depiciting the Anodos of Aphrodite, her emerging head in profile to left, wearing dotted sphendone, beaded necklace and earrings, between two winged Erotes, one with sash, a further sash above, a band below the scene and on the neck, traces of ovolo on rim overhang, the ogee foot pierced below for sepulchral purpose
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Sold Münzen und Medaillen, Auktion XVI, Basel, 30 June 1956, no. 144.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, II, Zurich, 1984, p. 114, Aphrodite 1161, pl. 115.

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