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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]
Provenance
From 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.
Literature
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.
Footnotes
The 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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