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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 Gold Dolphin Amphora Pendant
5th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £450 - 650 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
An amphora-shaped pendant composed of a jasper body, sheet-gold neck, two handles formed as leaping dolphins, ribbed loop between and free-running coiled loop above, pearl bead and foot to base. 1.85 grams, 23 mm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1970-2010. Collection of a late Japanese gentleman. -
Large Greek Attic Black Figure Kylix with Chariot Scene
5th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950
A terracotta kylix with broad flat foot, short stem, broad bowl with carination at the shoulder, glared mouth and two square strap handles; frieze of black-painted decoration including two scenes of a chariot yoked to two centaurs, one with sgraffito markings, between palmettes; restored. 566 grams, 25.5 cm wide
Restored.; fine condition, repaired.
Cambridgeshire collection, 1990s-2000s. Ex property of a Sussex gentleman. Accompanied by an academic report by 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.11579-198944.
These Attic kylikes were usually presented with a stemmed base, a deep bowl and twin, upturned loop handles, all upon a concave base. The exterior walls were decorated with black-figure technique on red background, here in a style remarkably similar to that of the Haimon Painter, especially in the rendering of facial features, and feet. The imagery on the exterior of these kylikes, used in the symposia, varied a lot. Just as the cup could be a mask (in the so-called typology of the Attic black-figure eye cups) to transform the drinker, to give a “complex painted character”. Daily life scenes, or fantasies like the chariot here pulled by centaurs, were among the various subjects. -
Hellenistic Ring with Nike
2nd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
A bronze finger ring with carinated hoop and stud to the underside, scaphoid bezel with intaglio winged Nike holding a wreath. 6.83 grams, 24.80 mm overall, 20.31 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)
Acquired before 2000. From the collection of a European gentleman living in the UK.
