Perfectly preserve neck amphora with TL certificate
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Object number
AR3276
| Object: |
Neck amphora
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| Material: |
Red-figure pottery Red clay with black slip and white paint |
| Date: |
4th century B.C. South Italian, Paestan or Campanian. A thermoluminescence analysis performed by Kotalla laboratory has confirmed the age of the vase to be 2460 years. |
| Description: |
Conical foot, high elegant body, neck opening to the top into a wide mouth. Attached handles. One side shows a naked youth standing en face and turning slightly to the left, the left hand holding a thyrsos, the palm of the right hand turned to the sky and catching pearls dropping in a vertical line. The other side shows a youth wearing an elaborately decorated cloak. On each side of the neck and under each handle voluminous palmette, on each shoulder black rays. |
| Size: |
Diameter incl. handles 135 mm, height 215 mm.
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| Condition: |
Perfectly preserved, incl. the original painting. Sticker with print "31" on the foot.
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| References: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 2, 35, Pl. 17.7-8 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Bologna, Museo Civico 3,IV.E.R.03, Pl. 1.7-8 |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2022 at the German art market. From an old German private collection, acquired in the 1980s from the German art market.
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| Certificate: |
An Art Loss certificate is available for this object. The Art Loss database comprises over 500.000 ancient objects which were reported as lost or stolen and also actively involves the corresponding Interpol and FBI databases. A print copy of the Art Loss certificate will of course be delivered together with this object. |
| Authenticity: |
We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of every artefact, all items are subject to our lifetime return policy on authenticity.
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