Neck amphora
Category
Ceramics
Date
470 BC - 460 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
330 x 200 x 200 mm
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532417
Summary
Small neck amphora, red figured. On side a] is Eros pursuing a boy, on side b] is an old man looking on. On a] kalos, on b] kalos Kallias. About 470-460 BC by the Oionokles Painter. George Hammond Lucy, having been given by Lord Brooke of Warwick, a catalogue of Greek Vases and other artefacts to be sold in London, purchased some of the vases which are now in the Library. On 12 July 1838 he paid to Messrs. Brown, Scagliola Works, University Street, London, the sum of £125 for four vases. Some of the other vases were bought in Italy in 1842.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.