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LOT 0556
Greek White Ground Pottery Collection
5TH CENTURY B.C.
1 1/8 - 3 in. (88 grams total, 29-75 mm).
Comprising various vessel fragments, some with linear decoration, and one important fragment with the image of a Ephebos, covered by a red-brown himation. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. University College Dublin, Death in White and Colour. An exhibition of Attic White Lekythoi of the 5th c.B.C., Dublin, 1967, pl.1.
FootnotesThe fragment with the Ephebos is realised in a style similar to the Thanatos painter. Usually the figure of the young man is opposed to a woman, and the young man is usually holding a fillet. The hairstyle of the young man seems to point to the third quarter of the 5th century B.C.
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