Property from an English Private Collection
A Faliscan Red-figured Beaked Oinochoe, circa 425-400 B.C.
Auction Closed
December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an English Private Collection
A Faliscan Red-figured Beaked Oinochoe
circa 425-400 B.C.
painted with a seated veiled woman raising her hands towards Hermes holding the kerykeion and wearing boots, chlamys, and petasos, a woman standing behind ဣhim, holding a flower, and wearing a belted chiton and pendant earringꦉ, a meander band below the scene, linked palmettes in the handle zone, a chequerboard pattern on the neck.
Height 23 cm.
private collection, by descent
acquired from the above by the current owner
The shape is that of Attic and Faliscan oinochoai type VII-2, as defined by L. Puritani, Die Oinochoe des Typus VII: Produktion und Rezeption im Spannungsfeld zwischen Attika und Etrurien, 2009, p. 19, figs. 1, 2, and 4. An Attic oinochoe of the same shape butꦫ with scale inste🐻ad of chequerboard decoration on the neck is in the British Museum, ac. no. 1846,0925.17 ).