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LOT 0571
Greek Gold Floral Mount
4TH-2ND CENTURY B.C.
1/4 in. (0.24 grams, 8.25 mm).
Repoussé mount of a twelve-petalled flower, two loops on the underside. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
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Greek Bronze Horse Head Mount
Circa 4th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Modelled in the round with large almond-shaped eyes and pricked ears. 34.8 grams, 38 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Greek Black-Figure Kylix with Warriors and Sphinxes
Attic, circa 530 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
Comprising: a broad shallow bowl with two loop handles curving up towards the rim, short stem and broad foot with chamfered outer edge; the bowl with reserved central disc to inner face, palmette motifs at the junctions of the handles, frieze depicting two standing nude males flanking a crouching sphinx in profile; restored and with old dealer's labels beneath base. 414 grams, 27.3 cm wide
Ex Prof. F.S., Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, 1991. with Gallery Drees Archeo S.P.R.L., Brussels. Acquired from the above, 16 December 2017. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate, no.S00041086. Accompanied by a Gallery Drees Archeo certificate of authenticity. Accompanied by a thermoluminescence report no.0102 0910 from Laboratory Ralf Kotalla, 6 September 2010. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12945-246388.
The present piece is a wide-bowled drinking cup known as a kylix - one of the most popular forms of pottery from the Achaean times (1600-1100 B.C.) through to the classical period (c.510-323 B.C.). It dates to an important moment in the development of Greek ceramics, just as the black-figure technique was being perfected by Athenian painters. Painted in black slip with details incised on top, kylikes usually had a frieze around the outside of the bowl as well as another scene on the tondo of the inside. The scene here represented can be linked with the well-known episode of Oedipus and the Sphinx. -
Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp
Hellenistic, late 2nd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Piriform body with volute nozzle, radiating linear decoration to the shoulder. 38.5 grams, 89 mm
From a collection of lamps from a late Scottish gentleman, 1970-1990s.
