An Apulian red-figure hydria
Attributed to the Darius-Underworld group, circa 4th Century B.C.
With draped female figures, one on the left holding a patera and mirror, the other a patera and timpanum, standing outside a naiskos with a pedestal basin on a decorated box, a meander band along the base line, with foliate motifs beneath the handles, a large palmette at the back and the rim with scrolling wave pattern, 19½in (49.5cm) high
Attributed to the Darius-Underworld group, circa 4th Century B.C.
With draped female figures, one on the left holding a patera and mirror, the other a patera and timpanum, standing outside a naiskos with a pedestal basin on a decorated box, a meander band along the base line, with foliate motifs beneath the handles, a large palmette at the back and the rim with scrolling wave pattern, 19½in (49.5cm) high
Sold for
£6,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
The property of a European private collector. Acquired in the UK and the US in the late 1970s-early 1990s.
Literature:
For a discussion of the Darius and the Underworld group in relation to hydriai cf. Trendall, A.D., and Cambitoglou, A., The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Volume II, Oxford, 1978, chapter 19.
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