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    • TWO APULIAN RED-FIGURED PLATES
    Lot 201

    TWO APULIAN RED-FIGURED PLATES

    CIRCA 340-320 B.C.

    Price realised

    USD 8,750

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    TWO APULIAN RED-FIGURED PLATES
    CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
    Each with a female head in profile to the left, wearing a sakkos, a rayed diadem and earrings, each encircled by decorative bands, details in added white and yellow; the first attributed to the Painter of Zurich 2660; the second attributed to the TPS Group
    Larger: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) diameter (2)

    Provenance

    First:
    Moonen Collection, Emblem, Belgium.
    Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24-25 November 1987, lot 517 (part).
    Second:
    Hattatt Collection, New Milton, no. 201.
    English Private Collection.
    Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 December 1974, lot 248.
    Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 1987, lot 256.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    First:
    A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Part II, London, 1992, no. 22 413a, pl. LVI,3.
    Second:
    A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Vol. II, Oxford, 1982, no. 22/153, pl. 248, 1.
    A.D. Trendall, Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily, London, 1989, fig. 227.1.


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