Neck amphora
Category
Ceramics
Date
470 BC - 430 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
380 x 250 x 250 mm
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532418
Summary
Small neck amphora, red figured. On side a] is a youth with drawn sword pursuing a woman, possibly Theseus and Aithra, on side b] is a woman running to a youth. Middle of the 5th century BC by the Agrigento 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.