A ROMAN TERRA SIGILLATA CUP

ARRETINE, CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN TERRA SIGILLATA CUP
ARRETINE, CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Conical in form with a flared and profiled rim, molded with a register of three masks, two of Medusa and one of Pan, palmettes above and below the Medusa masks, a palmette above the mask of Pan, linked by garland and interspersed with palmettes and rosettes on scrolling tendrils, with two stamps in Latin preserved, BARGATE, for Bargathes, and M.PEREN, for M. PERENNIUS, framed above by a band of tongues
3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm.) tall

來源

Dr. Ephraim, Lugano, 1960s.
Swiss Art Market.
Private Collection, Zurich.

拍品專文

The workshop of M. Perennius at Arezzo (ancient Arretium) was amongst the largest and longest running of all the known producers of fine Roman red-ware pottery. A number of his freedmen are known from their stamped signatures, including Tigranus, Saturninus and Crescens. Bargathes, whose signature appears on the present vase, at first signed as the slave of Tigranus before signing, as here, in his own right. (See Oxé and Comfort, Corpvs Vasorvm Arretinorvm, A Catalogue of the Signatures, Shapes and Chronology of Italian Sigillata, 2nd edition, pp. 21 and 41, and p. 321 for Bargathes' stamps).