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LOT 0521
Greek Bronze Handled Mirror
5TH CENTURY B.C.
8 5/8 in. (350 grams, 22 cm).
The discoid head with waisted neck and tapering tang, slightly recessed to one face.
ProvenanceAcquired in Europe before 1990.
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LOT 0521
Greek Bronze Handled Mirror
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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Greek Core-Formed Glass Aryballos
Circa 5th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
In opaque blue glass, flask shaped with shallow vertical channelling and polychrome feathering, trails to the neck and broad everted rim; iridescent surfaces; restored. 70 grams, 78 mm
Ex Maurice Mathieu. Acquired from Asfar, Lebanon, 1960s. Art Auction, Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 10 October 2012, lot 130. Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport no.116789. -
Mycenaean Terracotta Stirrup Jar
14th-12th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Carinated with slender cylindrical spout, stirrup-type handle and narrow foot; trace remains of painted geometric decoration. 106 grams, 79 mm high
Acquired in Europe before 1994. -
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Etruscan Bronze Handle Pair with Heads of Medusa
6th-5th century B.C.Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £4,444
Each formed as a D-shaped fluted bar with the finials formed as grotesque Medusa heads in Archaic Greek style with protruding tongue and a pair of bearded snakes framing her forehead; mounted on custom-made display stands. 695 grams total, 11 cm wide each
Ex private collection of Athos Moretti, Bellinzona, Switzerland, in the 1960s. with Christies, London, 14 June 1978, lot 344. with Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 1987, lot 154. 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.11773-204596.
The handles were possibly once part of a hydria or a stamnos. The workmanship of the nose and eyes of the Medusa recall the head of a gorgoneion from a chariot or cart fragment, today at the Metropolitan Museum (inventory no.29.131.3d1–d3).
