* An Apulian Red-Figured Amphora Height 34 inches.

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• Lot Description
  * An Apulian Red-Figured Amphora
  circa 330-300 b.c.e.
  the obverse with a youth standing beside his horse, clasping hands before him with a standing draped female, perhaps a goddess, all in added white within an Ionic naiskos with palmette akroteria, the youth nude but for a red chlamys fastened at his chest and a petasos, both falling behind, a spear in his left hand, his armor hanging to the right, the female with two spools of yarn in her lowered left hand, the podium with a band of meander, flanked by two offering bearers on either side, to the left above a nude youth seated on his cloak holding a spear and a shield, his pilos helmet behind his shoulders, a draped female below him stepping forward onto the podium of the naiskos, a fan and a situla in her hands, to the right above a seated draped female with a phiale and a patera in one hand, a parasol lowered in the other, a nude youth below stepping forward onto the podium, a filleted wreath in one hand, a basket with a cake in the other; a band of tongues on the shoulders, a female bust emerging from a blossom amidst elaborate scrolling above, a band of rosettes at the base of the neck, the neck with rays, tongues and palmettes above, ivy vine encircling the mouth; the reverse with a nude youth seated on his cloak within an Ionic naiskos with zigzag on the podium, a patera and his pilos helmet held before him, flanked by two offering bearers on either side, to the left above a seated nude youth with a filleted thyrsus and a wreath, below a draped female with a mirror and a wreath, to the right above a seated draped female with an open box and a situla, below a nude youth with a patera, a situla before him, his cloak draped over his left arm, holding a filleted branch, a shield below; ivy vine above tongues on the shoulders, tongues on the neck, with rosettes and palmettes above, vines on the handles, palmettes complexes below the handles, meander and saltire squares encircling below; details in added white, yellow and red.
  Height 34 inches.
  Estimate $ 20,000-30,000
  
  Property from the Estate of the Lord and Lady Jacobs, Palm Beach, Florida
  
  The body largely intact, repaired from very few large fragments with minor fill in the breaks, and some minor fill in cracks. The foot, stem and neck with a few repairs and cracks, similarly with minor fill. Some flaking and crackling to the pigment throughout, especially along the foot. Some losses to the added white, yellow and red.
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