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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
21-Mar-2015
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Description:
An Apulian red-figure trefoil-Lipped Oenochoe attributed to the Varrese Painter, circa 360 B.C. body decoration in two registers, the upper register depicting Eros and eight seated and standing figures in a landscape, with various decorations in the field the lower register depicting nine seated and standing figures in a landscape, arranged in three groups, with various decorations in the field friezes and bands of decoration above and below the registers, much of neck, foot, and handle reserved, 71.1 cm high Exhibited: Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria April 2005 - April 2006; Christchurch, James Logie collection (University of canterbury) March 2003 - March 2005; Melbourne, Ian Potter Museum (University of Melbourne) July 16 2001 - March 2003; Melbourne, Offerings to the Dead. seven funerary vases from Apulia. an Exhibit of Apulian vases from the collection of Mr. Graham Geddes the Museum of Art, old Physics Building (the University of Melbourne) December 1995 - December 2,000 Bibliography: 'Ancient vases in the new Logie Exhibition,' University of canterbury Chronicle vol. 38 no. 6 (2003) p. 14; A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou 'second Supplement to the red-figured vases of Apulia part I,' Institute of classical studies Bulletin Supplement 60 (London: Institute of classical studies 1991) p. 88 pl. XVI Provenance: ex Graham Geddes collection; ex private collection 1986
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Category:
Unclassified