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LOT 0068
Cypriot White-Slip Ware Jug
CIRCA 1450-1200 B.C.
6 3/4 in. (251 grams, 17.2 cm).
With bulbous body and slender tapering neck with strap handle to the rear, trumpet-shaped mouth; hatched bands and lozenges to the body and shoulder, multilinear rings to the neck; old collector's label marked '4' and '15.79' inked to the underside. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceRed-ink inscription '15.79' to the base suggesting it may have been deaccessioned from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Greek Lucanian Red-Figure Bell-Krater
Circa 380-370 B.C.Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5,000
Decorated with a meander with saltire squares below the figural scenes, and a laurel below the rim; Side A: a nude gesticulating satyr with short curly hair and long beard, running to the right with his left leg raised and his arms outstretched, characteristic pointed ears and pug nose, towards a maenad moving right and looking back at him, her hair short and curly, her body draped in a chiton, with another maenad standing behind him, facing left, draped in a himation over a chiton; Side B: three youths in draped cloaks with hoods thrown back; professionally restored. 2.1 kg, 29 cm wide
Fine condition, professionally restored.
Belgian private collection, 1950s. with Christie's, New York, 4 June 2008, no.190. Private central European collection. Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Christie's catalogue pages. 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.12067-218141.
The style allows us to attribute this vase to an unknown artist of Lucanian origin: it is in ancient Lucania (a region which is located between present-day Calabria and Basilicata, in Southern Italy and between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ionian Sea, with Metaponto as a well-known city) that the first Italic style of red-figure painting developed. -
Very Large Cypriot Bichrome Ware Pottery Amphora
Iron Age, Cypro-Geometric, 950-850 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,240
With narrow base, oblate profile, two lateral loop handles to the shoulder, broad neck and flared rim to the mouth; painted bands of circumferential geometric ornament, linear with lentoid motifs, radiating bars to the mouth. 8.5 kg, 53.5 cm
with Christie's, South Kensington, 4 November 1992, no.33. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12088-214715. -
Large Cypriot Brown Ware Storage Jar
Early-Middle Bronze Age, circa 2700-1900 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Of globular profile with narrow neck and flared mouth, single lug and incised band of trilinear zigzags to the shoulder; small hole to one side. 3.8 kg, 33 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
