A ROMAN RED WARE PERIFORM VASE, ROMAN, 3RD CENTURY AD A ROMAN RED WARE PERIFORM VASE, ROMAN, 3RD CENTURY AD A ROMAN RED WARE PERIFORM VASE, ROMAN, 3RD CENTURY AD A ROMAN RED WARE PERIFORM VASE, ROMAN, 3RD CENTURY AD A ROMAN RED WARE PERIFORM VASE, ROMAN, 3RD CENTURY AD A ROMAN RED WARE PERIFORM VASE, ROMAN, 3RD CENTURY AD

A ROMAN RED WARE PERIFORM VASE, ROMAN, 3RD CENTURY AD

Reference: ART600732

A Roman red ware periform vase from North Africa. This a very fine example of a narrow mouthed vase, with applied decoration and a slip glaze, produced in the potteries of the Roman province of Africa in the third century AD. These vases display a wide range of subjects and here we have Hercules standing with his clan and lion skinner under an arch while on the other side a hunter advances with his spear. A boar leaps under both figures emphasizing the hunting and the strength needed to subdue the wild beast. Long horizontal branches border the figures and above there are grapes with leaves just below the opening. The workshops which produced these vessels a century or so later increased their production to the extent that North African wares were found over the whole Mediterranean and beyond. Red terracotta. Roman 2nd-3rd century AD.
Some pressure cracks to the body but not broken.
Height: 17.3 cm.

PROVENANCE
Ex private Belgian collection formed between 1980 and 1990's by Professor C.B.