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THBMonumental Greek Apulian Skyphos - Eros & Female
Lot 30b
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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
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- Lot Description
Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 350 BCE. An enormous Apulian skyphos (wine mixing vessel) - extensively painted via the red-figure technique. Side A presents a winged hermaphroditic Eros facing a draped and bejeweled female with her coiffure also in a kekryphalos who sits upon a cista and holds a fan in her left hand and a pannier of cakes in her right hand. Eros, the god of love, stands in contrapposto, turned and facing his/her right - his/her nude physique (including ample breasts as well as a male genitalia) delineated with fine line brushwork - holding a floral garland in his/her outstretched right hand and a ribboned tympanum in his left hand. Though nude, he/she does wear laced sandals, a his/her hair raised and bound in a kekryphalos, long drop earrings, wristlets, beaded strands around one thigh, and a beaded strand around his neck and across his chest. Size: 20.625" W handlespan x 17" H (52.4 cm x 43.2 cm)
The attention to these details as well as the plumage of Eros' wings is fabulous, and skillfully applied fugitive white pigment delineates many of these wonderful attributes.
On Side B we have a similar scene, although in reverse, this time showing Eros seated and facing a draped and bejeweled female who stands in composite profile with her left leg elegantly extended outward. The female figure holds a fan in her left hand and a pannier in her right. Eros is depicted in the nude once again with anatomy delineated in fine line brushwork, holding a tympanum in his extended left hand.
In addition to this figural iconography, the field presents an extensive decorative program with stylized complex palmettes beneath the loop handles, a register of laurel leaves with a central floral motif above, and a band of Greek key (meander) with periodic dotted checkerboard motifs below.
Provenance: ex-Collection of Glenda and Donald Goldstein, San Bernadino, California, USA, acquired in 1960s
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#146893Repaired from approximately 60 original pieces with restoration over exterior break lines. This said, the form and painted figural iconography and decorative program are well preserved. In addition, many areas of the black slip have attained a stunning silvery iridescence as well.Condition
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