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LOT 0079
Greek Silver-Gilt Wine Cup with Handles
HELLENISTIC, 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
6 1/8 in. (179 grams, 15.5 cm wide).
Comprising a globular body with a rounded underside, a repoussé rosette with ropework border, segmented band with leaf detailing, hatched shoulder framed by ropework bands, scooped neck with chamfered rim; two D-shaped ledge handles with recessed rim, ropework border, hatched panels; accompanied by a custom-made display case.
ProvenanceAcquired on the US art market, early 1990s.
Private collection, North America.
Ex private collection, USA.
TimeLine Auctions, 23 February 2023, no.48.
Private collection, London.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.13037-247507.
For similar floral and detailed vegetal decoration see the Hellenistic silver cup with high-relief acanthus leaves in the Toledo Museum of Art, inv.no.1975.11, in Oliver, A., Silver for the Gods 800 Years of Greek and Roman Silver, Toledo Museum of Art, 1977, pp. 78-79, no.43.; the bottom of a silver bowl from Magna Graecia, in the MET, inv. no 1981.11.19; Ebbinghaus, S., Feasting with gods, heroes, and kings, Cambridge, 2019; for a glass parallel see the gold-glass cup, from Iran, of 2nd-1st century B.C. in St. Helens, Lancashire, Pilkington Glass Museum (inv.17204) in Pfrommer, M., Metalwork from the Hellenized East, catalogue of the Collections in the Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, fig.37 p.39; see also idem, fig.5 p.118, Treasure I, p.119.
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