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Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

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LOT 0034

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

ATTIC, 5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

5 1/2 in. (115 grams, 14.1 cm wide).

Mammiform body with flared pedestal base and two loop handles to the rim; each side with a facing image of an owl between laurel fronds; concentric circles to the base, Attic workmanship.

Provenance

Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London, 20 1994, no.39.
Private collection, Suffolk.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object no.2001.761.5; see also Johnson, F. B., ‘An Owl Skyphos’, in Mylonas, G., Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson on His Seventieth Birthday, vol. 2, St. Louis, 1953, pp.96-105.

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LOT 0034

Greek Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,560

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