Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
ASSOCIATED WITH THE STOKE-ON-TRENT AND KANTHAROS GROUPS, CIRCA 320-300 B.C.
The obverse with a female in added white with yellow details, seated on a column capital within a naiskos, holding a fan before her in her right hand, wearing a chiton and a himation around her legs, a kekryphalos and a fillet in her hair, a fillet in the field behind, the stylobate with a row of dots, the naiskos flanked by sprigs, with rosettes above the pediment, ovolo on the neck; the reverse with a female head in profile to the left, wearing a sakkos, earrings and a double-strand necklace, tongues on the shoulders; a band of wave encircling below; palmettes on the upper neck, laurel and berries on the mouth, palmettes and tendrils below the handles, radiating lines on the handle roots, details in added white and yellow
21¾ in. (55.2 cm.) high
Provenance
with Freddie Kung, Lucerne, early 1970s.
Stalder Collection, Lucerne, 1970s-1980s; thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 12 June 2008, lot 4026.
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