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ANCIENT VASES FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM SUDDABY
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED LEBES GAMIKOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF WÜRZBURG H5739, CIRCA 345 B.C.
Details
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED LEBES GAMIKOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF WÜRZBURG H5739, CIRCA 345 B.C.
One side with a nude youth stepping up on a tendril, a wreath in his lowered left hand, a woman before him standing beside an altar, a fillet in her left hand, a dotted rosette in the field; the other side with a woman seated beside an altar, depicted nude but for a patterned mantle draped around her lower body, holding a patera, wreath and fillet, a quartered ball and tendril hanging above; a band of wave below the scenes, palmettes below the handles, bands of dotted tongues and dotted ovolo on the shoulders, details in added white; the lid with rays on the upper surface, wave on the rim, supporting a miniature lebes gamikos, each side decorated with a swan in added white, palmettes below the handles, vertical lines on the shoulders
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF WÜRZBURG H5739, CIRCA 345 B.C.
One side with a nude youth stepping up on a tendril, a wreath in his lowered left hand, a woman before him standing beside an altar, a fillet in her left hand, a dotted rosette in the field; the other side with a woman seated beside an altar, depicted nude but for a patterned mantle draped around her lower body, holding a patera, wreath and fillet, a quartered ball and tendril hanging above; a band of wave below the scenes, palmettes below the handles, bands of dotted tongues and dotted ovolo on the shoulders, details in added white; the lid with rays on the upper surface, wave on the rim, supporting a miniature lebes gamikos, each side decorated with a swan in added white, palmettes below the handles, vertical lines on the shoulders
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
Provenance
with Atelier Amphora, Lugano, 1993.
Literature
A.J. Paul, Exhibition catalogue, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, Tampa, 2001, no. 33, illus.
Exhibited
Tampa Museum of Art, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, 14 October 2001-13 January 2002.