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LOT 0619

Greek Pottery Collection

5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

1 1/2 - 3 1/4 in. (120 grams total, 41-83 mm).

Comprising various vessel fragments with decoration, including a figural fragment of a pygmy carrying a dead crane, some with old pencil inscriptions. [7, No Reserve]

Provenance

From a deceased estate, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Nagwa Abdelnaby, A.I., ‘Two unpublished Figurines of Women Purifying themselves in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria’ in Bulletin of the Center Payrological, 38 (1), November 2021, p.645-664, fig.F, p.663, for a similar terracotta of an African slave sleeping.

Footnotes

The small statuette of a naked man, who rests his head on his left arm, shows African features, and most likely belongs to the terracotta statuettes of Hellenistic or Alexandrian production of the 3rd-2nd century BC.

CONDITION
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LOT 0619

Greek Pottery Collection

Sold for (Inc. bp): £78

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