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LOT 0567
Greek Late Athenian Redware Oinochoe
3RD CENTURY BC
8 1/4" (519 grams, 21cm).
A black glazed bulbous oinochoe with trefoil mouth and strap handle to the reverse; within a geometric frame, a running female in loosely draped robe, probably his wife (the goddess Hebe) offers a vessel to Herakles, looking backwards and with the lionskin mantle to his shoulders, aulos in his left hand, a leaping hare between them.
Provenance
Ex Brigantia Antiquities, York, UK; formerly from a North Country private collection in the early 1980s, acquired from Astarte Gallery, London, UK.
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