CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN GNATHIA-WARE HYDRIA
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
18 ¼ in. (46.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Albert Hugh Lloyd (1864-1936), Christ's College, Cambridge.
with Spink & Son, London.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), San Simeon, California.
The Hearst Corporation: Works of Art, Furniture and Architectural Elements Collected by the Late William Randolph Hearst, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 5-6 April 1963, lot 40.
Lillian Rojtman Berkman (d. 2001), New York.
Property from The Estate of Lillian Rojtman Bergman; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 2004, lot 221.
with Two Rivers Ltd., London.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2012.

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2012-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA811).

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Lot Essay

The ribbed body is divided by a painted band centred by a disc flanked by foliate scrolls. The large overhanging rim is moulded with egg and dart, and the neck is decorated with a necklace of beech-nut shaped pendants. For a krater decorated with a similar necklace in the British Museum, see inv. no. 1871,0722.8. and for two plainer hydria inv. nos 1871,0722.7 and 1871,0722.10.

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