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CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
Circa Mid 4th Century B.C.
With a woman and a youth on either side of an Ionic column surmounted by an acanthus flower emerging from four spikey acanthus leaves, the draped woman seated to the left and looking back, her hair in a stephane, a box in her raised right hand, a bunch of grapes in her lowered left, two rosettes in the field, a patera on the ground beside her, the nude youth to the right moving left, a garland tied around his neck, a wreath in his hair, three fillets in his right hand, a triple thyrsos and a mantle in his left hand, a blossom on the ground between his legs, an alabastron leaning against the plinth of the column, two rosettes in the field; a band of meander and dotted cross-squares below, two wreaths on the shoulders, a band of laurel around the neck, short vertical lines on the rim, an elaborate palmette complex below the handle
15½ in. (39.4 cm) high
Circa Mid 4th Century B.C.
With a woman and a youth on either side of an Ionic column surmounted by an acanthus flower emerging from four spikey acanthus leaves, the draped woman seated to the left and looking back, her hair in a stephane, a box in her raised right hand, a bunch of grapes in her lowered left, two rosettes in the field, a patera on the ground beside her, the nude youth to the right moving left, a garland tied around his neck, a wreath in his hair, three fillets in his right hand, a triple thyrsos and a mantle in his left hand, a blossom on the ground between his legs, an alabastron leaning against the plinth of the column, two rosettes in the field; a band of meander and dotted cross-squares below, two wreaths on the shoulders, a band of laurel around the neck, short vertical lines on the rim, an elaborate palmette complex below the handle
15½ in. (39.4 cm) high
Provenance
Maurice Nahman
Alexandra Manserro-Nahman
Alexandra Manserro-Nahman