Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 31
An Apulian red-figure lekanis
3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,000 - £1,500
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Siobhan Quin
Senior Specialist
An Apulian red-figure lekanis
Circa 4th Century B.C.
The knopped lid with a female head, dressed in a sakkos, radiate stephane and necklace, separated by two large palmettes from a crouching figure of winged Eros, his nude body adorned with jewellery, his hair dressed in a sakkos, holding a situla and box, with added white and yellow, 17cm high
Circa 4th Century B.C.
The knopped lid with a female head, dressed in a sakkos, radiate stephane and necklace, separated by two large palmettes from a crouching figure of winged Eros, his nude body adorned with jewellery, his hair dressed in a sakkos, holding a situla and box, with added white and yellow, 17cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the early 1970s.