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LOT 0054
Greek Tarentine Jug in the Shape of a Dolphin
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
5 3/4 in. (170 grams, 14.6 cm).
Hollow-formed as a stylised dolphin with trumpet-shaped filler hole above, ribbed loop handle to one side, socle base and scooped tail forming the spout.
Provenance
Acquired in 1992.
Private collection, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12855-241750.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. for a similar terracotta Marinelli M.C., Mastelloni, A.M., Museo Archeologico Regionale ‘Luigi Bernardo Brea’ Lipari, il Museo Archeologico, Palermo, 2015, fig.67.
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