Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

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Property from an English Private Collection

A Faliscan Red-figured Beaked Oinochoe, circa 425-400 B.C.

Auction Closed

December 7, 04:32 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an English Private Collection

A Faliscan Red-figured Beaked Oinochoe

circa 425-400 B.C.


painted with a seated veiled woman raising her hands towards Hermes holding the kerykeion and wearing boots, chlamys, and petasos, a woman standing behind him, holding a flower, and wearing a belted chiton and pendant earring, a meander band below the scene, linked palmettes in the handle zone, a chequerboard pattern on the neck.

Height 23 cm.


private collection, Lugano, acquired in the 1960s
private collection, by descent
acquired from the above by the current owner

The shape is that of Attic and Faliscan oinochoai type VII-2, as defined by L. Puritani, Die Oinochoe des Typus VII: Produktion und Rezeption im Spannungsfeld zwischen Attika und Etrurien, 2009, p. 19, figs. 1, 2, and 4. An Attic oinochoe of the same shape but with scale instead of chequerboard decoration on the neck is in the British Museum, ac. no. 1846,0925.17 (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1846-0925-17).

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