Greek Gold Floral Mount

Modelled in the half-round, the figure wearing a conical hood with open front, detailed facial features and ribbed beard, left arm bent, right arm drawn across the body in the folds of a mantle, vertical border to the left chest; mounted on a custom-made stand. 48 grams, 83 mm (69 grams total, 10.9 cm high including stand)



Ex Julien Gréau (1810–1895) who was an omnivorous French collector with a predilection for antiquities. Collection of Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), Saint-Nicolas-lez-Arras and Rouen, thence by descent. with Millon & Associes Auctions, Paris, 6th December 2021, lot 41 [Part]. Accompanied by a copy of Collection J. Gréau, Terres Cuites Grecques, by H. Hoffmann, 1891, where this piece is published.

Miniature with piriform body, carinated rim, applied handles and discoid foot, with polychrome geometric motif to the equator. 45.2 grams, 47 mm high

Fine condition.

Paris collection, 1990s. From an important Paris gallery, France. Ex private Parisian collection.

With rounded loop handles with elaborate palmettes below, pedestal foot; Side A with nude Eros flying left, holding a dish in his right hand; Side B with a standing female (Psyche?) waiting for Eros and offering a wreath with her left hand, dressed in a flowing peplos, a small altar before. 90 grams, 27 cm wide



Ex Barnard & Moore, 2003. From a Norfolk, UK, private collection. Accompanied by an original thermoluminescence analysis report no.N123k4 from Oxford Authentication. Accompanied by an old Moore Antiquities identification card with reference no.1958 and invoice dated 26 July 2003. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.11918-205900.

The Iliupersis Painter was a south Italic Greek vase painter whose name is unknown. The name derives from a represented scene in a volute crater in the British Museum depicting the sacking of Troy (Iliou Persis). The characteristic pillar-shaped monument depicted here can be seen also on the MET hydria, where the closed foot of the woman corresponds in detail to the one on our vase. The Iliupersis Painter was a prolific and innovative artist, active just before mid 4th century B.C., whose work set the standard for the large, ornate-style vases of the second half of the same century: volute-kraters with plastic masks on the volutes, increased polychromy, complex floral ornament, multilevel compositions, mourners surrounding funerary naiskoi and stelei.