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THE PROPERTY OF A SWISS COLLECTOR
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED KNOB-HANDLED PATERA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MENZIES GROUP, CIRCA 340 B.C.
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED KNOB-HANDLED PATERA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MENZIES GROUP, CIRCA 340 B.C.
The interior with a draped woman to the right seated on a pile of rocks, a fan in her raised right hand, a filleted wreath in her lowered left, facing a nude winged Eros standing with a filleted wreath in his lowered right hand, a patera in his outstretched left, a mantle draped over his left forearm, a bird and fillets in the field, a band of ovolo below the scene, two paterae and a rosette in the exergue, enclosed within a band of wave and a scrolling vine, rays on the handle knobs; one side of the exterior with Eros moving to the left and looking back, a cista and tympanum in his right hand, a filleted wreath in his left; the other side with a woman seated on a pile of rocks with a cista in her left hand, a wreath in her right; a band of wave below the scenes and along the rim, palmette complexes below the handles, details in added white and yellow
14 15/16 in. (37.9 cm.) diameter; 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MENZIES GROUP, CIRCA 340 B.C.
The interior with a draped woman to the right seated on a pile of rocks, a fan in her raised right hand, a filleted wreath in her lowered left, facing a nude winged Eros standing with a filleted wreath in his lowered right hand, a patera in his outstretched left, a mantle draped over his left forearm, a bird and fillets in the field, a band of ovolo below the scene, two paterae and a rosette in the exergue, enclosed within a band of wave and a scrolling vine, rays on the handle knobs; one side of the exterior with Eros moving to the left and looking back, a cista and tympanum in his right hand, a filleted wreath in his left; the other side with a woman seated on a pile of rocks with a cista in her left hand, a wreath in her right; a band of wave below the scenes and along the rim, palmette complexes below the handles, details in added white and yellow
14 15/16 in. (37.9 cm.) diameter; 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) high
Provenance
with Donati Arte Classica, Lugano, circa 1980.
Literature
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-figured Vases of Apulia, part II, London, 1992, no. 26/455a, pl. LXVIII,5.