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LOT 0078
Etruscan Bronze Ladle with Duck's Head Handle
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
93/4 in. (179 grams, 24.7 cm).
With shallow circular bowl and broad rim, stem with slightly domed front face, terminal formed as a duck's head.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1998.
Ex Swiss private collection.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 21.88.130, for similar.
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LOT 0078
Etruscan Bronze Ladle with Duck's Head Handle
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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Greek Bronze Bow Fibula
8th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
The keeled bow with a central bulb, integral pin and large catch-plate. 29 grams, 89 mm
From the family collection of a Surrey gentleman since before 1960.
The function of the catch-plate fibulae was utilitarian and decorative, they were used for woollen clothing (Herodotus V, 87) and they have been found in houses, tombs and as votive offerings in sanctuaries. Our fibula is an early type, very often found in the graves of the Greek colonies of Southern Italy and widespread in the Magna Graecia. This typology was introduced there by the Greeks. Like all female fibulae, it functioned as a clothing fastener, usually worn as a pair on each shoulder. -
Greek Archaic Terracotta Head of Kore
6th-5th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
Modelled in the round wearing a diadem or headdress, either a Kore or Aphrodite, hollow-formed; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. 229 grams, 12 cm (263 grams total, 13.5 cm high including stand)
Acquired in the 1970s. Ex European private collection.
The type belongs to the evolution of the ‘Aphrodite Group’ that was distributed and copied by local workshops in Ionia and the rest of Greece. The figurines of this type are found in sanctuaries of female deities, as well as graves (eg. in Molyvoti). Similar figurines have also been found in Thassos. -
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Greek Red-Figure Fragment with Athletes Attributed to the Euaion Painter
Circa 460 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
From a kylix, the inside painted with two young naked athletes within a medallion, conversing and cleaning their bodies with a strigil, the edge of the medallion decorated with a series of meanders and four crosses; the outside with two naked athletes and other figures, divided by foliage ornaments and volutes. 121 grams, 15.2 cm
Acquired in before 2005. Private collection, Europe. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11805-206818.
The Euaion painter was a prolific artist of about 460 B.C. His painting - already in the manneristic period of the Attic red figures vases - was more nearly classical in style, although the ancestry of his small-headed, slim figures, is very evident. He introduced a high, sometimes patterned ground line for an upright two-figure group, and preferred the old elaborately patterned borders for tondos and the ground lines outside cups.
