Perfectly preserved large lekythos with TL certificate
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Object number
AR3275
| Object: |
Lekythos
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| Material: |
Red-figure pottery Red clay with black slip and white paint |
| Date: |
Second half 4th century B.C. South Italian, Apulian or Campanian A thermoluminescence analysis performed by Kotalla laboratory (RefNr. 04R-AR-3275) has confirmed the age of the vase to be 2410 years +/- 13.8%. |
| Description: |
Conical foot, ovoid body, thin concave neck opening in a funnel with wide flat lip. Thin attached handle. The vase shows a naked young man leaning to an elaborately decorated altar. The right hand holds a wreath, the left a flower. Hair dressed with a pearl diadem, over the shoulder and left thigh pearl bands. The image is framed on both sides by half-volutes, on the opposite side below the handle voluminous palmette. On the neck band of long vertical rays. |
| Size: |
Diameter 120 mm, height 249 mm.
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| Condition: |
Perfectly preserved, undamaged, incl. the original painting.
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| Reference: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. London, British Museum 2, IVEa.9, Pl. 12.4
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| 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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