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LOT 0543
Etruscan Bucchero Kyathos
CIRCA 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
5 3/8 in. (180 grams, 13.5 cm high).
Blackware vessel with carination to the body, deep flared rim,low foot, single upstanding strap handle to the rear; restored.
ProvenanceFrom the Steel family collection, 1950s-late 1990s.
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Greek Terracotta Head Fragment
6th-5th century B.C.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
Hollow-formed with neatly dressed hair confined by a cap or fillet; traces of pigment to the eyes. 1.1 kg, 27 cm high
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Greek Terracotta Figural Plaque
4th-3rd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Comprising two acephalic nude figures: the female shown from behind with rounded buttocks and a voluminous garment draped over her shoulders; the male figure shown frontally with his weight on his left leg, leaning against the female, left hand resting on his hip; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 197 grams, 10.3 cm high (344 grams total, 15 cm high including stand)
Ex French Sorbonne archaeology professor (deceased); 1960s-2000s.
The couple represented here could be a depiction of Eros and Psyche. Terracotta figurines of these divinities are quite common in Hellenistic Asia Minor, the Black Sea, the Near East, with examples from Amisos, Ephesos, Priene and possibly Smyrna, but also in the Cyrenaica and in Sicily. In mainland Greece there are a few examples of related types from Beroia and Pella. However, not all the figurines of couples depict Eros and Psyche. Different types are known from other areas of Greece in the late Hellenistic period, on Crete there are close parallels from the Idaean cave.
