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LOT 0078
Greek Blackware Kantharos
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
8 1/8 in. (381 grams, 20.5 cm wide).
With broad disc foot, drum-shaped bowl with carinated lower edge, flared rim, two ribbed strap handles rising above the rim; below on each face vine tendrils in a splayed array.
ProvenanceFrom a West Coast collection, Devon, UK, 1980s.
LiteratureCf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1993.197, for a similar 5th century Boeotian example.
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LOT 0078
Greek Blackware Kantharos
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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