Lot
37
Lot 37
A Victorian terracotta bottle vase, a/f neck damaged and rep...
Estimate
£60 - £90
A Victorian terracotta bottle vase, a/f neck damaged and replaced, finely painted with classical Greek scene, titled to base 'Diomed Casting His Spear Against Mars', and 'The Fight for the Body of Patroclus', 14 by 23cm high.
Notes: these scenes are two of several designs that the English sculptor and draughtsman John Flaxman (1755–1826) did to illustrate passages from the Greek epic poet Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, a commission he had been given by Georgiana Hare-Naylor while he was living in Rome.
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