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A large Gnathian ware skyphos image 1
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Lot 79

A large Gnathian ware skyphos

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

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A large Gnathian ware skyphos
Apulia, circa late 4th-early 3rd Century B.C.
Side A with a running nude male, probably a Dionysiac reveller, holding a bird in his left hand behind him, a sceptre surmounted by a bird in his outstretched right hand, the scene framed by a border of bunches of grapes and vines; side B with a similar scene of a running nude maenad, her hair bound in a sakkos, carrying a bunch of grapes in her left hand behind her, a floral sprig in her outstretched right hand, the scene framed by scrolling floral garlands and stylised laurel, both sides with tongues, scrolls, dots and coloured wavy bands beneath the rim, details in added red, white and yellow, 37.2cm high; 47.2cm diam.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1990, lot 299.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 24 October 2012, lot 83.
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.

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