Very large Campanian red figure skyphos
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Object number
AR2476
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Skyphos (wine cup with two handles)
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| Material: |
Red figure vase: Red clay with glossy black slip and white and yellow painting |
| Date: |
Cumae, last quarter 4th century BC Early hellenistic epoch |
| Description: |
High cup with ring-shaped foot and two horizontal handles. Decorated with red figure painting showing a naked youth sitting on a stone on one side and a draped youth on the other side. Below the handles palmettes and tendrils and below the rim egg-and-dart.
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| Size: |
Diameter 196mm with handles, height 115 mm.
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| Condition: |
Very good condition. One handle is broken and reattached, part of the other handle is modern, part of the black glaze is retouched.
On bottom an old sticker labeled "3" and "0049" written in black.
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| References: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Frankfurt am Main 3 (Germany 50), Pl. 38.4, 39.1-2 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Genova, Museo Civico d'archeologia Ligure di Genova Pegli e collezione del Castello d'Albertis 1 (Italy 19), IV.E.R.3, Taf. 1.1-3, there further reference to a similar vase found at Capua |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2018 from a traditional Munich auction house. Ex Gorny & Mosch Auktion 252 (2017). Ex collection E. C. (Frankonia region, Bavaria, Germany), acquired in this in the 1920s - 1930s.
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| Authenticity: |
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