Lot 7
A Group of Three Grand Tour Red-Figure and Polychrome Ceramic Vessels, 19th c., height of tallest 12 1/2 in Note: This group of three ceremonial "grave-furnishings" is dominated by a very fine White-Ground Lekythos in the Early Classical taste, decorated on a large central field with a female figure seated on a "klismos" chair, and approached by a tall, winged male figure; both are exquisitely drawn in thin black outline (though the male figure's wings-as well as the suspended ribbons-are tinted in red). The short, Red-Figure Column Krater is more conventionally painted with a group of horseman and a battle scene, and has an "archaeological" patina; the interesting Squat Lekythos is decorated with a polychrome scene of a seated female figure approached by a crouching winged figure, somewhat in the manner of South Italian "Apuleian" wares of the Classical period. The group epitomizes the sophisticated style of the workshop (perhaps in Naples) where these fine Grand Tour ceramics had their origin.
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