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LOT 0612
Greek Tall Terracotta Vessel
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
8 in. (323 grams, 20.5 cm).
With tall tubular neck and flared rim, broad shoulder, conical body, narrow columnar foot; traces of pigment to shoulder. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Opening Bid: £250
Conical in form with rounded shoulder, everted rim and two round-section handles; painted with concentric bands around the interior and exterior. 243 grams, 15.5 cm wide
Acquired in Europe before 1992. European collection.
The skyphos was already well known in Greece since the age of the Achaeans. In Homer, Eumaeus, the swineherd, prepares for his guest Ulysses a cyssibium filled with wine which the hero drinks during the meal and, when he is full, Eumaeus makes him drink from the cup in which he himself was using, a skyphos. Ulysses also offers Polyphemus a drink in a skyphos. -
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Opening Bid: £300
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