A ROMAN RED-WARE POTTERY JUG

CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN RED-WARE POTTERY JUG
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
With a barrel-shaped body, the sloping shoulders embellished with raised tongues, a cylindrical neck, a flaring rim and a wide strap handle, the body ornamented with two relief scenes meant to be read as one story, both framed to the left by a large grape vine arching over and to the right above the figures; one scene with King Lycurgus, maddened by Bacchus, wielding a double-axe, the muscular figure nude but for a mantle, a small child to his left and right, presumably his sons, Lyssa, the personification of raging madness, clad in a chiton, her right breast exposed, thrusting a flaming torch in her left hand at the king, a snake coiled around her arm; the other scene with a youthful Bacchus to the right, fleeing from the angered king, his body frontal, depicted nude but for a mantle draped over his shoulders, a staff in his left hand, looking to his right at a fleeing woman with a small child in her arms, perhaps Lycurgus' wife, her drapery falling to her knees and revealing her body, a leaping panther to her right
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high

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Private Collection, Germany.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 13 June 2000, lot 312.

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Molly Morse Limmer

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According to Homer, Lycurgus attacked Bacchus and his nurses, forcing the god to take refuge in the sea. Lycurgus was later blinded and soon died. Later writers, such as Aeschylus, elaborate on the story, suggesting that Bacchus drove him to madness (see Rose, "Lycurgus," The Oxford Classical Dictionary.

CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

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