AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED LEKANIS LID

ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF THE TRIESTE ASKOI, CIRCA 340-310 B.C.

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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED LEKANIS LID
ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF THE TRIESTE ASKOI, CIRCA 340-310 B.C.
With naked winged Eros flying to the right holding a wreath, a swan below, a draped female seated on an Ionic capital, holding two phialai and a wreath, and a seated naked youth holding large flower and two bunches of grapes, a tambourine, phialai, palm and laurel branches in the field, knobbed handle with dotted rosette, band of wave around the rim, details in added white and yellow; with associated twin-handled base
Lid 8 in. (20.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Jacques Errera collection, 19th Century, Belgium; thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, Belgium, 1934-1957.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. II, Oxford, 1982, p. 824, no. 61.

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