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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]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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 Nagwa Abdelnaby, A.I., ‘Two unpublished Figurines of Women Purifying themselves in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria’ in Bulletin of the Center Payrological, 38 (1), November 2021, p.645-664,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.
FootnotesThe 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.
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From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
