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Apulian red figure Skyphos

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Object number
AR3006
Object: Apulian skyphos
Beaker with two handles

Material: Red clay with black slip and white painting
Red-figure pottery

Date: 4th century B.C.
Apulian

Description:    High beaker with discus-shaped foot and two small horizontal handles below the lip. Decorated with a female head to the left on each side, below the handles large palmettes, wave line below the lip.

Size: Height 104 mm, diameter 149 mm with and 88 mm without handles

Condition: Very well preserved including the original decoration and white painting. Handle and large fragment at lip broken and professionally restored.

Reference: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum 2, Pl. 73.4

Provenance: Acquired in 2020 from the legacy of a German private collector. Acquired in Rome between 1970 and 1975.

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