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LOT 0629
Attic Pottery Collection
4TH CENTURY B.C.
1 - 3 in. (53 grams total, 26-76 mm).
Each showing various decorative motifs including one with the winged figure of Eos, and other images of torsos of men and women. [9, No Reserve]
Provenance
From a deceased estate, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Jentoft-Nilsen, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, the J.Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, South Italian Vases, Apulian, Lucanian, Campanian, Sicilian and Paestan Red-Figure, Malibu, 1991, pls.190,192,215, for painted pottery showing intact parallels for similar fragments.
Footnotes
These fragments show the indebtedness or South Italian vase-makers to their colleagues in mainland Greece, which later developed into one of the most dominant shapes in Apulian red-figure while, at the same time, in Athens, these subjects became less popular by 380 B.C.
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