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LOT 0046
Boeotian Black-Glazed Terracotta Kantharos
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
7 1/2 in. (310 grams, 19 cm wide).
The high-handled drinking cup with carinated lower body and a tall offset foot with a collar.
ProvenanceEx Galleria Serodine, Arte Antichità, Fritz Huchelmann-Tieche, Ascona 13 November 1987.
Private collection, Bern, Switzerland.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1993.197, for a similar with vine-leaf decoration.
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