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LOT 0058
Large Greek Red-Figure Amphora with Lady of Fashion
APULIAN, 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
18 1/4 in. (2.48 kg, 46.5 cm high).
The conical mouth with laurel-leaf motif, palmettes below; lateral strap handles to the shoulder and palmette below each; Side A: profile bust of a lady of fashion with her hair in a chignon covered by a sakkos; Side B: similar design.
ProvenanceAcquired 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.N126a17 from Oxford Authentication.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13076-248950.
See Trendall, A.D., The red-figured vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, second supplement, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin n°31, 1973.
FootnotesThe pattern-work and the female head seem to connect the vase more closely with the Monopoli Group. The corkscrew curls on the hair over the ear and the sakkos with a bow at the top are, in fact, typical of the heads of this group.
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