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LOT 0630
Greek Apulian Red-Figure Footed Plate with Lady of Fashion
SOUTH ITALIC, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
5 in. (125 grams, 12.8 cm wide).
With raised rim, carinated profile and low stepped foot; rim with radiating black lentoid strokes, tondo with reserved ring and wave-pattern band enclosing a profile female bust with white detailing to the necklace, stephane and sakkos. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx David Miller, Hemel Hempstead, London, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
Cf. Wisseman, S.U., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Mainz, 1989, p.41, pl.52,3; 55, no.3, for type.
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LOT 0630
Greek Apulian Red-Figure Footed Plate with Lady of Fashion
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
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Greek Terracotta Figure Group
3rd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Each moulded with plain reverse, some facial and body detailing to obverse with flared foot. 200 grams total, 10.4-11.1 cm
Acquired in the 1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Greek Black-Ware Echinus Bowl
Attic, late 4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £79
Broad, shallow body with low rounded wall and ledge rim, in light orange-brown fine clay with black gloss all over; wide ring foot, seven stamped palmettes clustered around centre. 311 grams, 18 cm wide
Formerly acquired in the late 1950s-1960s. From the family collection of a London, UK, collector. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman. -
Large Apulian Red-Figure Pelike
Early 4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Of Plain Style, comprising a broad mouth and neck with torus rim, vertical handles with central rib, bulbous body, stepped disc foot; laurel wreath on the neck and a meander pattern to the lower body; Side a) a youth wearing a himation and shoes, before him a woman carrying a basket and a fillet, wearing a sleeveless chiton, himation, and a sphendone (a fillet decorated by black dots), between the two figures a standing goose before a large flower, a suspended mirror above the figures; Side b) a draped young boy holding a ball and a strigil, the slightly taller youth dressed in a himation and leaning on a staff, a haunch of meat hanging between the figures. 2.49 kg, 33.5 cm
with Bonhams, London, 13 April 2000, no.167. Private collection, Suffolk. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12903-242647.
The haunch of meat (note the hoof), was a type of 'love gift' seen in Attic vase-painting. It could also refer to honorary shares of sacrificial meat: animal sacrifice had been a central part of Greek religious life since the Prehistoric era.
