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Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery
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LOT 0057

Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery

APULIAN, 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

17 in. (1.88 kg, 43 cm).

The piriform body with broad, stepped rim and two lentoid-section handles; painted palemete beneath each handle and on the neck below the mouth; Side A: red-figure frieze depicting a standing woman wearing a himation and stephane, her hands raised supporting objects, a laurel frond before her and a seated nude male with thyrsus and other items; Side B: two opposed figures standing supported by staves, each wearing a loosely draped floor-length garment; objects in the field.

Provenance

Acquired on the art market between the late 1990s and mid-2000s.
Estate of the late Barry Paul Buxton (1944-2024), Oakham, Rutland.
Acquired on the UK art market, 2025.

Accompanied by a thermoluminescence analysis report no.N126a18 from Oxford Authentication.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13075-248951.

Literature

See Trendall, A.D., The red-figured vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, second supplement, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin no.31, 1973.

Footnotes

The subject is standard, often representing the draped youths completely enveloped in their himatia.

CONDITION
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With Thermoluminescence Analysis Report

LOT 0057

Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Dionysian Scenery

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640

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