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APULIA, CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Details
A CANOSAN POLYCHROME POTTERY VOLUTE-KRATER
APULIA, CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
The obverse with a hanging pink fillet, the neck centered by a molded frontal head of Dionysos, wearing an elaborate pink, white and blue fillet of ivy and berries, the ties painted along the shoulders, framed by two winged Erotes seated on square platforms along the shoulders, each wearing a pink mantle folded over to blue at the waist, their wings pink, their red hair adorned with pink and blue fillets, the volutes with female mascaroons, with pink hair and red lips on the obverse
15½ in. (39.4 cm.) high
APULIA, CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
The obverse with a hanging pink fillet, the neck centered by a molded frontal head of Dionysos, wearing an elaborate pink, white and blue fillet of ivy and berries, the ties painted along the shoulders, framed by two winged Erotes seated on square platforms along the shoulders, each wearing a pink mantle folded over to blue at the waist, their wings pink, their red hair adorned with pink and blue fillets, the volutes with female mascaroons, with pink hair and red lips on the obverse
15½ in. (39.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired in 1977.
Brought to you by
G. Max Bernheimer
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