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THBBreathtaking Apulian Red Figure Lekythos , ex-Christies
Lot 28a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional art from around the world - Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Viking, Russian, Near Eastern; Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, India; Fine Art from the 17th century to present. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional art from around the world - Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Viking, Russian, Near Eastern; Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, India; Fine Art from the 17th century to present. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Magna Graecia, Apulian, attributed to the Egnazia Group, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. A strikingly large squat lekythos, extensively decorated via the red-figure technique. At the center is a female, most likely Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, sitting upon the rim of a laver, her visage in three-quarter view. She wears a flowing chiton with finely delineated cascading folds of drapery, that has seductively fallen off her right shoulder, revealing her breast, and a diaphanous himation wrapped around her legs. She is also bedecked with several bracelets and a beaded necklace. Then there is her elaborate coiffure - a section of her wavy hair is arranged in a top knot, while the rest billows over her shoulders. Contributing to the wonder, is a white dove that has alighted upon her left hand, while a winged and bejeweled Eros offers a wreath in his right hand and holds a fillet in his left hand as he flies to the right. Size: 13" H (33 cm)
To the left is a youth wearing a himation draped around his waist and over his left arm and high buttoned boots, leaning on a staff and holding an elaborately delineated mirror in his right hand. Before him is a filleted kalathos and above is a fillet and a rosette. To the right, leaning with her left elbow upon a pillar is a draped woman, holding a fan in her right hand and a phiale in her left. On the groundline before her is a large blossom. The field is further embellished with floral tendrils and sprigs, a band of meander with dotted crossed squares encircling the vessel below the figural scene, a register of rosettes above, vertical frets on the neck, and an extremely elaborate complex palmette with rosettes below the handle. All is finely delineated in red-figure with wonderful details in added fugitive white pigment.
Provenance: private Connecticut, USA collection; ex Christie's, New York, 6 June 2013 lot 586; ex-private collection, England. The Estate of Ronald Bullock, Esq.; Bonhams, London, 26 November 1997, lot 399.
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#146720Repairs to upper section (neck, handle, and spout) with restoration and touched up pigment over the break lines. Minute nicks to periphery of base and rim of spout. Some surface scuffs and scratches to the body. Earthen deposits to underside of base.Condition
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