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Lot 74

A Campanian red-figure skyphos

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Campanian red-figure skyphos
Attributed to the Pilos Head Group, circa 350-325 B.C.
The obverse with a seated satyr, face in profile, holding a thyrsus in his left hand, the reverse with a standing male figure draped in a himation and holding a staff, band of dotted ovolo beneath the rim, palmettes below the handles, 12.2cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Charles Ede Ltd (Pottery from South Italy XVIII, 1998, no. 11).
Private collection, UK, acquired from the above.

For similar floral decoration see A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, pl. 108, no. 7.

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