A Black Basalt 'Encaustic-Decorated' Two-Handled Krater Vase
Year
c. 1770 - 1775
Dimensions
25.6 x 28.1 cm
10 1/8 x 11 1/8 in
Signed and dated
Iron-red painter’s mark and faint 187
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Provenance
Lindsay Grigsby, Richmond, Virginia, 1 June 2004 (label and invoice);
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 415.
Literature
P.-F. H. d'Hancarville, Collection Of Etruscan, Greek And Roman Antiquities From The Cabinet Of The Honble. Wm. Hamilton,Antiquités Etrusques, Grecques Et Romains, Tirees Du Cabinet De M. Hamilton,4 vols., Naples 1766-67 (but possibly published 1767–76), vol. I, pl. 48, for a vase with a closely-related design;
E. B. Adams, The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham 1999.
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