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archer w/dog vase intaglio/etched/engraved? all three?

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azelismia:
This piece may or may not be sick. I am working on cleaning it now. It was absolutely filthy when I got it. There are two spots with very old tape residue. This piece was a devil to get clean pics of. Some of the cutting is very deep and some of it is not. the back of it has engraved or etched leaves and grapes and the rim has the same, but the archer and dog seem to be cut far more deeply than that. no markings that I could find. anyone have any ideas of origin on this one? it's about 15 inches tall. because of how hard this was to photograph, I found the best way to show the detail was to take pictures from teh backside of the vase so some of the pics will be magnified in what the archer really looks like. the pics are of course clickable. the pics are pretty huge.

Frank:
Presumably Apollo.

dirk.:
rather diana, i´d say. as goddess of hunting she´s
usually shown with bow and dog.

Frank:
I thought that at first too, but think it is male. Apollo was a bowman and Diana's twin.

dirk.:
it looks like female dressing and hair-do to me, though her
secondary sexual characteristics are not too much accented.
apollo would wear some kind of breast-shield rather than
anything waisted, wouldn´t he?  :huh:

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