Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Lot Closed
April 22, 04:46 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN ETRUSCAN-STYLE AMPHORA VASES, 19TH CENTURY
with spreading foot and neck, affixed with two strap handles, painted with figures from antiquity and bands of anthemion in orange, pale-yellow and black
height 14⅞ in.
37.8 cm
The chariot figures and horses are seen on the antique vase 'The Meidias Hydria', from the Hamilton collection now in the British Museum London, mus. no. 1772,0320.30+. They depict Polydeukes, who drives the chariot at full speed away standing in it with Helera, whom he has just seized. The other shows charioteer Chrysippos, dressed as Castor, but has been embellished by the vase painter with an additional figure not seen on the antiquity or the engravings included in The Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honble Wm Hamilton, P. F. d'Hancarville (ed.), Naples, 1766.