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Description : ANOTHER PROPERTY A PALE BLUE FAIENCE ARYBALLOS, NAUCRATIS 1ST HALF OF THE 6TH CENTURY B.C. height 2 in. 5.1 cm. in the form of a head of Herakles wearing the lion skin, the face of the hero with striated projecting beard and furrowed brow, the details accented in black, radiating tongues on the mouth of the vessel. PROVENANCE the Egyptologist Pierre Lucien Lacau (1873-1963), Paris acquired from his descendants by the former owner LITERATURE Greg Manning Galleries, Inc., New York, 1990s sale catalogue NOTE For other Herakles-head aryballoi from the Greek colony of Naucratis in Egypt see Virginia Webb, Archaic Greek Faience. Miniature Scent Bottles and Related Objects from East Greece, 650-500 B.C., Warminster, England, and Forest Grove, Oregon, 1978, pp. 128-129, pl. XX. The author lists nine examples known to her, most of them found in Greece, including three in the British Museum (M.I. Maximova, Les vases plastiques dans l'antiquité (époque archaïque), vol. II, Paris, 1927, pl. XXXVI, no. 134, LIMC IV, p. 734, no. 13), one in Copenhagen (CVA Copenhagen, vol. 2, pl. 80, no. 13a-b), one in Cairo (G.A. Bénédite, Les objets de toilette, Cairo, 1911, no. 3969, pl. 25), and one on the German art market in 1970 (Kropatscheck Collection, Hamburg, 1980, p. 32, no. 24). Vessels of this type were probably inspired by Rhodian pottery plastic vases in the form of Herakles heads (see British Museum, Greek Terracottas, vol. I, no. 50, pl. 11 and Münzen und Medaillen, Auktion 26, October 5th, 1963, no. 77). Webb notes that the faience versions show an interesting misunderstanding for there are two human hands either side of the face, and Herakles' head is itself dwarfed by the surrounding lion's head, which has apparently come alive, and is consuming the luckless hero. These must derive from the East Greek series, but made by workers ignorant of the significance of the original model. For another possible iconographical source of Egyptian origin see Schimmel Collection, no. 202 (Egypt's Dazzling Sun, no. 33) and Sotheby's, New York, June 9th, 2004, no. 79. On the Egyptologist Pierre Lacau see M.L. Bierbrier, Who's Who in Egyptology, 3rd ed., London, 1995, pp. 233-234.
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