Lot 7 , An Apulian red-figure pottery amphora, Southern Italy, 4th century B.C., part of one handle lacking

An Apulian red-figure pottery amphora, Southern Italy, 4th century B.C., part of one handle lacking
Estimate £150-250

Height 35cm
There is a section of the top of one of the handles lacking and you can see a spur at the top of the neck where it has become detached, there is a rim chip, under rim chip and some other smaller nibbles around the edge, there is some general flaking to the painted decoration all over, and a few almost like surface flakes / chips in places, please see photographs, there are a couple of small splinter chips to the edge of the foot, otherwise in reasonable condition.


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Sold for £500