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LOT 0559
Greek Apulian High-Glazed Fluted Cup
4TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/2 in. (174 grams, 90 mm high).
Raised fluting decorating the body, broad c-section neck and everted rim, segmented openwork handle.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1960s-1970s.
Ex European private collection.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11856-206542.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 1983.571.4, for a very similar example.
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LOT 0559
Greek Apulian High-Glazed Fluted Cup
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
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Greek Black-Glazed Plate
5th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Shallow-bodied with broad foot; incised fluting around the exterior body and rim. 192 grams, 12.7 cm wide
Acquired in the 1960s-1970s. Ex European private collection. -
Greek Apulian Black-Glazed Mug
Circa 4th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
With a high-gloss black slip, ovoid body and a short wide neck with a flaring rim, a wide strap handle and a flat base. 144 grams, 95 mm wide
Ex P. A., Hertfordshire, UK, specialist collection of Greek art, 1980-1990s.
The black glaze technique uses the same glaze used by the Greeks on the red-figure and black-figure ceramics, but covering the entire piece, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw glaze, which took on its characteristic intense, glossy black tone after firing. -
Syrio-Phoenician Shipwreck Terracotta Birthing Group
Iron Age II, 8th-6th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Hollow-formed figurine comprising a nude female with dressed hair on a stool assisting with the birth of a baby from a taller figure; hollow to the underside; marine accretions. 844 grams, 18 cm wide
From an early 1960s collection. 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. Accompanied by an old handwritten identification tag with provenance.
