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LOT 0574
Etruscan Brownware Impasto Vase
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
5 5/8 in. (328 grams, 14.4 cm).
Biconical with a broad neck, everted rim and two high handles, shoulder decorated with high vertical ridges with conical knop at centre to two faces.
ProvenanceEx private Mister X. (1931-2017) collection.
Sold in the benefit of the 'Croix-Rouge of Monaco'.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 96.18.84, for a broadly similar example.
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LOT 0574
Etruscan Brownware Impasto Vase
Estimate £700 - 900€810 - 1,040 (for guidance only)$950 - 1,220 (for guidance only)
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Shallow discoid vessel with thick loop handles, central panel with meander detailing, concentric bands and outer radiating ring of ivy leaves on tendrils. 233 grams, 16.5 cm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late-1990s. -
Villanovan Black-Glazed Vase
9th-8th century B.C.Estimate: £1,800 - 2,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
Biconical impasto body with broad flaring rim, bell-shaped upper section with bands of incised geometric decoration and impressed roundels, lower section tiered and sharply funicular with narrow flat base, a lateral upturned loop handle; small hole beneath the carination, rim partly restored. 4.5 kg, 41 cm
Ex Feu Dr. Gonik Et/Ou Feu Me Wirth, Genève. European private collection. 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 search certificate number no.12205-222203. -
Cypriot Terracotta Vessel Group
Iron Age, Cypro-Geometric, 950-850 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Including a thin-walled bowl with painted motifs, an amphora with 'attached' handles and a small oinochoe decorated with circlets. 812 grams total, 7.7-16.5 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.
The objects are proto-white painted pottery, with abstract linear lines and drawings, and circlets. The design of the pots and vessels followed local traditions, but as an island with links stretching across the Eastern Mediterranean, Levantine and Aegean coasts, Cyprus was influenced by foreign ceramic fashions of the time. The beautiful concentric circles were reminiscent of the sun; careful horizontal and vertical lines intersecting each other forming a graphic landscape.
