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LOT 0534
Greek Terracotta Bowl
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
8 1/2 in. (745 grams, 21.5 cm wide).
With a broad, conical body and basal ring; black concentric rings to the body.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1970s, thence by descent 2012.
Private UK collection, Cambridge, UK.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
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Greek Core-Formed Glass Alabastron
3rd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
With fusiform body, slender neck and broad flange rim, applied ledge handles, decorated with white marvered feathering and spiralling trails. 79 grams, 15 cm high
Fine condition.
Paris collection, 1990s. From an important Paris gallery, France. Ex private Parisian collection.
A perfume bottle. -
Greek Attic Black-Glazed Kylix
Circa 5th century B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Without handles, composed of a D-section bowl with attractive whorl pattern to the centre, everted rim, spool-shaped stem and discoid foot; old label with '37' to the outside of the bowl; restored. 230 grams, 15.6 cm wide
Very fine condition.
Ex Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819?-1899), France. Private collection, acquired on the French art market in 2009.
This Attic pottery type, developed towards the late 6th century B.C., made from a fine light tan clay with a semi-lustrous black gloss, except for the edge and underside of discoid foot. Usually this kind of handleless kylix evidences a shallow, segmental form body with the lip curving inward and being slightly offset on the exterior. A wide circle in black is usually visible on the underside of the foot. -
Cypriot Terracotta Votive Horn
2100-1850 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Tapering square-section votive with transverse bands of dense linear hatching; repaired. 116 grams, 16.5 cm
From the celebrated personal collection of art formed by the famous anthropologist, artist, and television presenter Desmond Morris. with Christie’s, South Kensington, 14 May 2002, lot 19 (part).
