Live Auction 17420Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED PELIKE
Lot 6

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED PELIKE

ATTRIBUTED TO THE FORLI PAINTER, CIRCA 340-310 B.C.

Closed4 December 2018

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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED PELIKE
ATTRIBUTED TO THE FORLI PAINTER, CIRCA 340-310 B.C.
Obverse with two nude youths, cloaks draped over their arms, reverse with two draped youths, palmettes under the handles, rosettes and laurel around the neck, band of Greek key below the scenes, details in added white
14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), London.
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.

Specialist note

For other vases attributed to the Forlì Painter, cf. A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, part III, London, 1992, p. 599, pl. 231:4.