Property of a Gentleman
Auction Closed
December 6, 03:36 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
A Large Apulian Red-figure Amphora
attributed to th🐻e Group of Copenhagen, circ🥀a 3rd quarter of the 4th Century B.C.
of slender form with high pedestal foot, convex handles, and flaring mouth, the front decorated w♋ith a youth and a bearded man standing within an Ionic naiskos, a boy with kalathos between them, the youth leaning on a shield and holding a spear, the bearded man offering a patera, a shield and a conical object in the field, a small mask in the center of the pediment, the reverse painted with a sash-draped stele flanked on each side by a lady and a youth, details in added white, yellow and red.
Height 103 cm.