Lot 48

Repairs to handles, rim and foot, small chips to foot rim, later paint mark to lower body otherwise in in good condition.


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Acquired from Joseph Stieglitz, Tel Aviv, March 1971
Christie's, South Kensington, Antiquities, 29 April 2010, lot 231 (accompanied by a copy of the purchase receipt)

A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figure Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Third Supplement, London, 1983, p. 180, no. 108a.

A hand written letter from Professor A. D. Trendall accompanies this lot, confirming the attribution to the 'Painter of the Naples Hydria': 14 May 1974,...By the Painter of the Naples Hydria...The floral decoration to right is very typical of this painter and reappears on the Naples hydria...