Greek red-figure miniature lekythos, Athens, c.400 BC
Terracotta
Height 9.5cm
8554
£ 6,500.00
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Greek red-figure miniature lekythos with Eros and Aphrodite. Decorated in red figure with considerable use of added white and traces of relief slip. A seated woman gazes back over her...
Greek red-figure miniature lekythos with Eros and Aphrodite. Decorated in red figure with considerable use of added white and traces of relief slip. A seated woman gazes back over her shoulder at Eros who advances offering a goose. Palmettes and florals beneath the handle, bands of ovolo above and below the main composition.
Some wear.
Some wear.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no. 218Bellon was a keen supporter of the arts throughout his life. He numbered among his friends artists such as Dutilleux, Carot and Daguerre. In the 1850s he carried out regular excavations in Saint-Nicolas-les-Arras of the Gallo-Roman and Merovingian necropoleis. He developed a particular passion for Tanagra figurines and amassed a large collection, the biggest in France. Part of it featured in a famous exhibition in the Trocadero in 1878 and again in Rouen in 1884.
Literature
Compare a larger variant Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Brussels 2 (Brussels, 1937), pl.82, no.3a41
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