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LOT 0527
Greek Red-Figure Fragment with Draped Figures
5TH CENTURY B.C.
5 1/8 in. (91 grams, 13 cm).
Depicting a young man dressed in a long cloak, the right hand resting on a staff, facing a young woman wrapped in a long himation, covering her head and leaving the face uncovered; the scene enclosed within a medallion decorated with meanders and chequered squares; remains of the stem to the reverse with painted figures on the edge; repaired.
ProvenanceAcquired before 2005.
Private collection, Europe.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11796-206819.
Cf. The Paul Getty Museum, Greek vases, Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection, Malibu, 1983, nos.36-37.
FootnotesThis red-figure scene once possibly formed part of a kylix, a cup made for drinking. The decoration of the tondo surrounding the figures allows a comparison with some works of the painter Onesimos and the potter Euphronios. In particular the meanders on the medallion, and the working of the figures, seems to recall the work of Onesimos, who preferred to decorate cups, many of them thrown by the famous Euphronios.
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Cypriot Limestone Head of a Deer
Iron Age, circa late 6th-early 5th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Carved in the round with stub antlers to the brow; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 982 grams total, 19.7 cm including stand
Acquired before 1947. Ex Wood family collection, UK; thence by descent 1970.
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Greek Canosan Terracotta Oinochoe with Face
Circa 4th century B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £425
The body formed as a female bust with elaborately styled hair; discoid foot, tall stem with pinched rim giving a broad pouring lip, strap handle to the rear; some pigment remaining. 446 grams, 22.2 cm high
Old French private collection. Swiss private collection, Basel-Landschaft. Private collection of M. Tritten, Binningen, Switzerland. Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
The Canosan ceramic workshops produced several series of head vases, starting with a red-figure imitation of the Attic plastic oenochoe attributed by Beazley to Group N.21. The next product combined two ceramic techniques: a) the neck, mouth, and handle were executed in red-figure technique with superimposed white rays on the neck; b) the head was drawn from two moulds, mounted on a base rim, and decorated with white slip and polychrome after firing. It belongs to the initial phase of the polychrome ceramic production of Canosa, for which only this type of mould is known. It also illustrates the close collaboration which existed between potters and coroplasts. The same archetype was used in the next phase, producing entirely polychrome head vases, like this one, in which traces of polychrome are still visible on the mouth and near the left ear.
