An Etruscan red-figure pottery pelike, the body with a young male athlete, standing nude, holding a strigil in his right hand, flanked by two pillars, the reverse with a similar young male figure, running to the left, repaired, rim chipped -- 4 3/8in. (11.2cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C.

An Etruscan red-figure pottery pelike, the body with a young male athlete, standing nude, holding a strigil in his right hand, flanked by two pillars, the reverse with a similar young male figure, running to the left, repaired, rim chipped -- 4 3/8in. (11.2cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C.

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An Etruscan red-figure pottery pelike, the body with a young male athlete, standing nude, holding a strigil in his right hand, flanked by two pillars, the reverse with a similar young male figure, running to the left, repaired, rim chipped -- 4 3/8in. (11.2cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C.
See Colour Plate 1

Provenance

With attached card reading 'Rev. Edwin de B Saunderson, The Vicarage, Dulverton'

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