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THBHuge Greek Faliscan Skyphos - Lady of Fashion & Dove
Lot 29
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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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- Lot Description
Classical World, Italy, Faliscan, ca. late 4th century BCE. A very large - perhaps the largest we have seen in quite some time - and very fine red-figure skyphos with added/fugitive white and yellow pigments - decorated with an elegant Lady of Fashion donning a radiate stephane, sakkos, beaded necklace, and drop earrings on one side, a magnificent dove rendered in profile on the opposite side, as well as an intricate, stylized palmette below each handle with tendrils flanking the handles and simultaneously framing the Lady of Fashion and the avian creature. Truly a special piece! Unusual for having a dove on one side and a Lady of Fashion on the other. Also unusual for its grand size! Size: 13.625" W handlespan x 9.25" H (34.6 cm x 23.5 cm)
Doves were incredibly popular in the classical world - for example, Pliny records a "mania" for the birds, with people constructing elaborate dovecotes (columbaria) atop their houses to keep the birds. Doves were associated with Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. What's more - just like today - doves were associated with loyalty, innocence, love, and purity.
See a similar example at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston - https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/skyphos-154441
Provenance: private East Coast, USA Collection; ex-private American collection, acquired in 1970s
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#143549Body of the vessel is repaired from multiple pieces with areas of restoration to the center of the bird's body, the bird's feet, sections of one palmettes, and over some of the break lines. Still, very well done and an incredibly large example!Condition
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