A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN ETRUSCAN-STYLE AMPHORA VASES, 19TH CENTURY

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 Hon^ble W^m Hamilton, P. F. d'Hancarville (ed.), Naples, 1766.