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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.
ProvenanceBonhams, Knightsbridge, London, 20 1994, no.39.
Private collection, Suffolk.
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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Italic Silver Wire Fibula
Circa 700-600 B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
With a coiled spring and lateral lugs; tapering shank, and separate ring. 9.11 grams total, 1.8-12.4 cm
Private collection, Switzerland, 1992. Thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
