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An Apulian Red-figured Hydria, circa 340-320 B.C.
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description
- An Apulian Red-figured Hydria
- Height 46.5 cm. 18 1/4 in.
decorated with two women flanking a naiskos with large flowering plant inside, one holding a calathos and fillet, the other a fillet and fan.
Provenance
French private collection, acquired in Paris in the late 1970s (Hôtel des Ventes de Compiègne, Succession du Docteur X. et à divers. Entier mobilier provenant d’un appartement parisien, Boulevard Malesherbes, February 7th, 2015)
Catalogue Note
The present hydria appears to be by the same hand as one sold at Bonhams, London, April 27th, 2006, no. 103. See also A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to red-figured vases of Apulia, 1991, p. 170, no. 19/129b. Chapter 19 includes hydriai by different hands that are broadly connected with the Darius and Underworld Painters in the period 340-320 B.C.