Identifier: illustratedcatal00amer_8 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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967 961 952 — Prochoos. With two-lobed mouth. Decorated with a band of freely executed anthemions in blackon a red panel, reserved. The remainder of the piece is covered with a slightlylustrous black glaze, over which is a ring of pearls in white. Height, 9 inches. Sfft—Skyphos. Black glazed inside and out, and decorated over the black with olive branches in red andbetween them, anthemions in white. The decoration much effaced. Height, <-,% inches. 954—Kylix. Of fine red clay, covered with a lustrous black glaze, excepting, inside, a circular re-serve at the bottom of the cup, and, outside, a broad band of red divided by ablack line above the insertion of the handles, and a narrow band below. Theuppermost red band is decorated in black with two pairs of leopards, animalssacred to Dionysos. From the handles proceed elegant small anthemions, andand on a level with them, twice repeated, is an inscription which, though un-grammatical, may be read : XAIPE KAI IIIEI TE NAIXi. Hail!

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