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LOT 0572
Greek Festooned Glass Amphoriskos
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
5 3/4 in. (124 grams, 14.4 cm high).
An aqua coloured amphoriskos with an elongated piriform shape and tubular neck with everted rim, handles and knop foot applied using a contrasting aubergine-coloured glass; decorative white trails and festooning to the body and neck; repaired.
ProvenanceAcquired early 1990s.
Ex private American collection; thence by descent.
Private collection since 1998.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 91.1.1240, for similar.
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Greek and Other Artefact Group
Circa 7th-2nd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
A group of two silver artefacts comprising: a brooch element with catchplate and decorative ribbing; a possible earring with coiled closures. 8.55 grams total, 29-33 mm
Essex gallery, early 2000s. -
Hellenistic Terracotta Pyxis
3rd-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £600
A terracotta pyxis 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 Bucchero Sottile Kotyle
Late 7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
A bucchero sottile kotyle, a deep drinking vessel of early type, decorated with a rouletted fan pattern above, incised triangles radiating from the base, with panels of geometric line decoration to the centre; skyphos-like handles to either side; some restoration. 213 grams, 10.5 cm high
American collector before 2000. Property of a Spanish gentleman. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. Accompanied by a copy of a Spanish cultural export licence.
This vessel was likely to have been made in a workshop in Cerveteri, belonging to the category of the so-called bucchero sottile, (thin bucchero, 675-625 B.C.) although some were produced at Tarquinia, and many distributed as far as Carthage and beyond. Decoration of this kind of kotyles (Rasmussen type c) are composed of simple groups of horizontal and vertical lines. Closed fans, whether horizontal or vertical, may be included at handle-level, below the usual pair of lines below the rim.
