Bonhams 1793 : An Apulian red-figure hydria

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24 Oct 2012 10:30 BST London, New Bond Street
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An Apulian red-figure hydria
Attributed to the Truro Painter, circa 370 B.C.
With a central seated female figure holding a fan, behind her stands the small figure of winged Eros, before her stands a nude youth with his himation draped at the shoulders and holding a staff, a draped female figure behind her standing on a patterned plinth, holding a phiale and a wreath, the shoulder with a reclining Hermes wearing boots and holding the caduceus, a draped female figure standing to his right, an elaborate double palmette on the reverse, an owl under each side handle, a band of strokes around the base of each handle, meander with saltire squares along the baseline, palmettes on the neck, ovolo under the rim, 17in(43.3cm) high

Sold for £7,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

Provenance:
English private collection.
Bonhams, London, 15 October 2008, lot 18.
The Graham Geddes Collection, Melbourne, Australia.
Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1985, lot 375.

Exhibited
On loan to the Museum of Mediterranean Antiquities, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, November 2005-April 2008.
On loan to the University of Melbourne, March 1988-July 2003.

Literature:
Cf. A.D. Trendall & A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. I, Oxford, 1978, pp. 115-122.