A SOUTH ITALIAN POTTERY FIGURAL VESSEL
A SOUTH ITALIAN POTTERY FIGURAL VESSEL

CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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A SOUTH ITALIAN POTTERY FIGURAL VESSEL
CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Moulded in the form of a seated grotesque figure, leaning on a wineskin, his right arm reaching across to the vessel, the mouth of the amphora forming the mouth of the vessel, a ring handle behind, the grotesque with rounded pot belly, snub nose, large protruding ears and bald head, with details of stubbly beard, hairy arms, legs and pubic region, belly button, right nipple and boots in added yellow and white
4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) high
來源
A. F. collection, Brussels, acquired 1990.
with Galerie Harmakhis, Brussels, 2008.
with Charles Ede Ltd, London.
Prof. H.-H. Heissmeyer collection, Schwäbisch Hall, acquired from the above in 2009 (inv. no. 43).
出版
Vases, 2015, p. 107, no. 37.

拍品專文

This type of vessel is most probably a lamp-filler. For similar figures see inv. no. GR 1847.8-6.34 in the British Museum and acc. no. 01.8149 in Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a flask or lamp-filler depicting Silenos with coarse features.

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