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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK ESTATE
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.
The obverse with a draped female figure holding grapes in her lowered right hand, a cista in her left, facing a seated youth holding a torch in his left hand and a wreath in his raised right; the reverse with two standing draped youths, the one to the right clutching a staff; a band of wave below the scenes, tongues on the shoulders, palmettes on the neck of the obverse, laurel on the reverse, laurel on the mouth, palmettes and tendrils below the handles, details in added white
19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm.) high
CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.
The obverse with a draped female figure holding grapes in her lowered right hand, a cista in her left, facing a seated youth holding a torch in his left hand and a wreath in his raised right; the reverse with two standing draped youths, the one to the right clutching a staff; a band of wave below the scenes, tongues on the shoulders, palmettes on the neck of the obverse, laurel on the reverse, laurel on the mouth, palmettes and tendrils below the handles, details in added white
19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner's family prior to 1969.