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A Campanian oinichoe
4th century BC
Campania
Black on yellowish-red clay
Height: 19cm
Circumference: 45cm
Circumference: 45cm
Museum number: L9
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 539
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
A youth seated right at a potter's wheel, holding a vase; before him, at the right, two figures, one female, the second male, standing facing left. Framed with tongue, leaf, and wave pattern below.
The interesting and highly individual picture has unfortunately suffered the most thorough deterioration of the unprotected red surface; Dr. Cambitoglou has suggested that perhaps this ruined vase has been scratched by a restorer in an effort to create a rarer, more interesting composition than originally existed on the vase.
The interesting and highly individual picture has unfortunately suffered the most thorough deterioration of the unprotected red surface; Dr. Cambitoglou has suggested that perhaps this ruined vase has been scratched by a restorer in an effort to create a rarer, more interesting composition than originally existed on the vase.
Literature
Sir John Soane, Description, 1835, p.1.
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