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LOT 0516
Greek and Other Painted Terracotta Fragment Group
4TH-2ND CENTURY B.C. AND EARLIER
1 1/2 - 3 3/4 in. (427 grams total, 37-95 mm).
Comprising fragments from various types of vessels, most with painted decoration; including a large fragment of an Indus Valley vessel with a polychrome frieze with an ibex. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Hellenistic Terracotta Pyxis
3rd-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £700 - 900 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £350
With separate lid; small flared base, carinated profile with large flange rim, lid with broad flange, domed upper face with rosette detailing and central facing female bust. 189 grams, 90 mm wide
Ex Atenasov collection, Germany, before 1973. -
Etruscan Gold Leech Earring
3rd century B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
Formed with a hollow c-shaped body adorned with five rows of hollow spheres and a double filigree ropework band, two rows of filigree hoops to the inner face. 7.61 grams, 30 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s. -
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Eastern Greek Bronze Standing Bull Statuette
Circa 11th-9th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
With thick ribbed neck, crescent horns and prominent genitals; mounted on a custom-made stand. 141 grams total, 86 mm wide including stand
From the collection of D. Smith, Sussex, UK, 1990s.
Like dozens of similar statuettes depicting animals or human figures, this bronze bull was probably offered by a worshipper during a sacrifice. A large number of statuettes were found in a thick layer of ash from the altar of Zeus at Olympia. In 2021, a similar statuette, with protruding horns, was found in the sanctuary. Bulls and horses were the favourite cultic animals in the Cretan, Achaean and Archaic Greek civilisations. The model of the long and narrow body was borrowed from the Near East.
