TWO LARGE ITALIAN TERRACOTTA RED-FIGURED HYDRIAE VASES
Lot 120

TWO LARGE ITALIAN TERRACOTTA RED-FIGURED HYDRIAE VASES

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAPLES

Closed14 October 2014

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USD 7,500

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TWO LARGE ITALIAN TERRACOTTA RED-FIGURED HYDRIAE VASES
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAPLES
In the Apulian style, each with a floral band at the shoulder, one painted after the P.F. d'Hancarville engravings of the Hamilton volute-krater with a naiskos scene of a deceased warrior below a white portico, the other with figures before the prophet Cassandra, identified in Greek below, with large stylized palmette motifs at the reverse
15 in. (38 cm.) high

Specialist note

A nearly identical pair was sold Christie's, New York, 18-19 April 2012, lot 350.