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Description : Attributed to Asteas, Circa 350 B.C. The obverse with white-haired Paposilenus seated on a rock, holding a skyphos before him, a duck at his side, a wreath and a fillet above, Dionysus standing to the right, nude but for a mantle draped over his left arm and a wreath in his hair, a thyrsus in his right hand, both wearing folded boots; the reverse with two facing draped youths; a band of wave below the scenes, a band of laurel below the rim, fanning palmettes with scrolling tendrils below the handles 14 1/8 in. (35.9 cm) high PROVENANCE Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities also Isnik and Islamic Pottery, Sotheby's London, 3 December 1973, lot 69 Summa Galleries, Inc., Beverly Hills LITERATURE Trendall, in The Art Bulletin of Victoria, 21 (1981), p. 23, figs, 24-25. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum, p. 67-68, 4/25, pl. 22 (a-b).

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