Description:

Ancient Greece, South Italian colonies, Apulia, ca. 5th century CE. Wow! A truly remarkable and incredibly rare hydria adorned red-figure decoration beneath an elaborate Dionysiac relief. The background scene showing a draped woman to the left offering a casket to a youth wearing a wreath on the right, a frieze of continuous scrolls below and tongues above, the reverse with palmette decoration. The whole gessoed with remains of blue coloring, the front with applied high relief terracotta figure of ithyphallic Pan with goat legs and horns embracing a naked maenad, flanked by two curling snakes, the rear handle terminating in a grotesque mask linked to the side handles by swags of fruit and foliage. Size: 8" Diameter x 10.25" H (20.3 cm x 26 cm)

Published in Christie's London "Fine Antiquities Wednesday 11 June 1997" auction catalog, no. 147, pg. 79.

This hammered 2,530 GBP at Christie's London on 11 June 1997 (equal to $4,141.10 on that day or $7924.31 now).

Provenance: ex-Royal Athena Galleries, New York City, New York, USA; ex-Cahn's Auction, Basel, Switzerland, 2013; ex-Christian von Faber-Castell collection, Kusnacht, Switzerland; ex-Christie's London, United Kingdom, June 1997.

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  • Condition: Partially missing one handle and small area of rim has been professionally repaired. Surface wear with chips, nicks, and abrasions as shown. Otherwise, body is intact and has an excellent presentation. Good preservation of pigment and applied detail.

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