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  • Greek Attic Black-Figure Lekythos with Fighting Warriors
    Greek Attic Black-Figure Lekythos with Fighting Warriors
    6th century B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160

    With flared foot, broad shoulder and trumpet-shaped mouth, strap handle to the rear; painted frieze with scene of two warriors fighting on foot with spears, watched by two silhouetted companions; ivy leaves to shoulder. 154 grams, 13.9 cm



    Ex Gübelin, Switzerland, before 1970. with Fischer Luzern, 2006. Acquired by the previous owner from the above, 9 June 2006. Private collection, Europe. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss register certificate, no.S00066703. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12638-264603. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Greek Attic Terracotta Banded Kylix with Animal Frieze
    Greek Attic Terracotta Banded Kylix with Animal Frieze
    Circa 540 B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,500

    With a deep bowl resting on a short stem and flared foot, the inner face with a central roundel, the outer face with a frieze of animals, Side A) an advancing lion with gaping jaws, a siren with its wings spread and head turned back, a grazing antelope and an advancing lion facing left, Side B) an advancing lion, a standing swan with its wings spread, a sheep(?), and another swan facing left with its wings spread. 396 grams, 28.5 cm wide



    Swiss Art and Antiques Fair, Basel, 4-12 April 1987. Ex Galleria Serodine, Ascona, Switzerland. Private collection, Bern, Switzerland. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12639-236374. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Greek Archaic Black-Figure Kylix with Inscriptions
    'Rejoice and Drink Well'
    Greek Archaic Black-Figure Kylix with Inscriptions
    550-530 B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £10,530

    With broad flat foot and short stem, broad bowl with carination at the shoulder and two strap shoulders; a palmette on each side of the handle; Side A) a standing siren with its wings spread, Greek inscription below 'XAIPE KAI ΠIEI EY' (Rejoice and drink well); Side B) a grazing stag with large antlers, Greek inscription below 'XAIPE KAI ΠIEI EY' (Rejoice and drink well). 178 grams, 21 cm wide



    Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12640-236638. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Terracotta Painted Lekythos by the Gela Painter
    Terracotta Painted Lekythos by the Gela Painter
    Circa 490 B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,500

    With cylindrical body and bevelled shoulder, stepped foot; three connecting palmettes above the shoulder with two flanking lotus flowers, meander pattern below; decorated with a scene from a fountain house comprising a building with three columns, water flowing from animal-shaped fountain heads into two hydria, two women approaching the vessels by stepping onto the upper step, both wearing a long himation and their hair tied up in krobyloi, two men approaching the building behind the women, dressed in cloaks and leaning on sticks, the man on the left holding a conical cup, a seated dog at his feet; restored. 715 grams, 33 cm



    Ex Jean-David Cahn AG, Auction 4, Kunstwerke der Antike, 19 October 2002, no.234. Private collection. Accompanied by copies of the relevant Jean-David Cahn AG catalogue pages. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12642-236377. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Messapian Painted Terracotta Trozella
    Messapian Painted Terracotta Trozella
    6th century B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,460

    With piriform body resting on a delineated foot, tubular neck with everted, inward sloping rim; two large handles projecting from the shoulder and descend towards the rim in a steep angle, rosette medallions embellishing the angles and base; chequerboard motif on the neck with bands of vegetal motifs on the shoulder, the handles with ivy leaves and linear decoration. 1.78 kg, 32.7 cm



    From the estate of the prominent Swiss painter Max Gubler (1898-1973), acquired in 1936. with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12646-236461. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Greek Terracotta Siren Vessel
    Greek Terracotta Siren Vessel
    Rhodian, circa 550–500 B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340

    A mould-made vessel with the body of a bird and the head of youthful female with her head turned right, hair arranged in long plaits falling on her shoulders, small lug on the back, the body resting on stylised legs tucked beneath the body. 341 grams, 18 cm



    Ex Dr U.W., Biel, Switzerland. with Rhea Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12647-236463. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Greek Bronze Mirror with Floral Pattern
    Greek Bronze Mirror with Floral Pattern
    Circa 6th century B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £936

    Discoid with raised beaded rim, obverse slightly convex with a guilloche border; the reverse with a central five-petalled flower and three pairs of concentric circles, crescentic lines radiating from the innermost pair and extending to the outermost pair. 258 grams 15.2 cm wide



    Private collection Dr L.M., Zurich, Switzerland. with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Parthian Bronze Horse Oil Lamp
    Parthian Bronze Horse Oil Lamp
    1st-2nd century A.D.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300

    Hollow-formed model horse with bridle and dressed mane, dorsal socket with hinge-lugs; long scooped tubular nozzle to the chest; one leg and tail absent. 603 grams, 23.5 cm



    Acquired before 1983. Ex London gallery, 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Greek Gold Diadem with Glass Gem
    Greek Gold Diadem with Glass Gem
    1st millennium B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £936

    Sheet-gold with tapering finials, central raised cell set with a two-tone glass insert imitating banded agate; mounted on perspex backing. 76.87 grams total, 30 cm (36 cm including stand)



    with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Greek Gold Floral Diadem
    Greek Gold Floral Diadem
    2nd century B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040

    A triangular sheet-gold panel with repoussé flowers and tendrils; mounted on perspex backing. 45.56 grams total, 15 cm wide (18 cm wide including stand)



    From the estate of Dr Jacob Hirsch. Acquired by Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, from the above in 1999. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Hellenistic Gold Filigree Element with Garnet
    Hellenistic Gold Filigree Element with Garnet
    2nd-1st century B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £936

    Rosette panel with central claw setting and four voided cells, scrolled filigree and beaded wire; garnet cabochon to centre. 3.32 grams, 24 mm



    Acquired before 1983. Ex London gallery, 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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  • Cypriot Terracotta Amphora
    Cypriot Terracotta Amphora
    8th-7th century B.C.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,380

    Buffware vessel with bands of painted decoration on the ovoid body and on the rim, panels of reeding, saltires, gammadions and other ornament to the neck, loop handles. 4.4 kg, 38 cm high



    Private collection, Lebanon, early 1970s. Private collection, acquired in the late 1980s. Thence by descent, family collection, since 1998. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12653-234696. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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