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An Apulian red-figure trefoil lipped oenochoe, circa 340-330 B.…
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Melbourne
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21-Mar-2015
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An Apulian red-figure trefoil lipped oenochoe, circa 340-330 B.C., the oenochoe decorated on one side only, with the frontal panel depicting a phlyax scene of two comic actors facing one another, each wearing masks and padded tunics with tights below, with the figure on the left also wearing a large phallus and that on the right dressed specifically as an old man with a staff, the figure on the left gesticulating with a band of ovolo on the neck, a red painted cross on the underside, elsewhere reserved, (losses to surface), 18.4 cm high Provenance: ex Graham Geddes collection; ex Julian Beale collection 18 February 1997; Sotheby's London 8 December 1986, Lot 185
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Antiquities: Greek