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LOT 0492
Greek Terracotta Spindle-Flask and Votive Plate Group
HELLENISTIC, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
1 7/8 - 3 1/2 in. (93 grams total, 48-90 mm).
With a long, narrow neck and a chamfered mouth, developing to a fusiform body and a flared foot; three shallow footed dishes, one with voided centre. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK private collection since at least 1946.
Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 0492
Greek Terracotta Spindle-Flask and Votive Plate Group
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp
Circa late 5th century B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £5
Shallow, round body with inturned rim to the central vent, square-ended nozzle and low foot; lateral lugs forming attachment points for a handle (absent); old collector's labels to underside and '1801' to nozzle; typed data panel. 56 grams, 90 mm
From the collection of the late Bernard C. Pickard, Hampshire, UK, the owner of Bernard C. Pickard Antiquities, which closed in 1987, he had been collecting since the mid 1950s. Accompanied by a typed information display card.
Bernard Pickard was a close friend of Richard Hattatt, the renowned author of several books on ancient brooches. Hattatt acknowledges in his first book, Ancient & Romano-British Brooches, published in 1982, that Mr Pickard first aroused his interest in brooches and inspired him in writing his books during his retirement. Mr Pickard also wrote the foreword to the section on Roman animal brooches, op.cit. p.158-160. -
Greek Terracotta Head Collection
Circa 4th-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Comprising four head fragments, one fragment of the upper torso of a male, and a bird fragment. 116 grams total, 37-72 mm
From the collection of a Cambridge, UK, gentleman, by direct descent from his father, who acquired the items in London in circa 1960. -
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Large Etruscan Statue of a Priest with Patera
2nd century B.C.Estimate: £18,000 - 24,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £9,000
Modelled in the round standing figure with palla draped over the left shoulder and from the hips, extending to calf-length; the head with aquiline nose and dimpled chin modelled with a wreath of large leaves around the brow forming a corona; exaggerated eyes left blank to accept silver inserts; left arm bent, hand holding an incense-holder with cruciform design; right arm extended at shoulder-height with phiale mesomphalos offering dish; socket beneath left foot and screw-threaded post beneath right, repairs to both lower legs. 1.23 kg, 28.4 cm high
Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1996, no.79. Private collection, New York, USA. Accompanied by copies of the relevant Sotheby's catalogue pages. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13355-255463.
The figure is probably a devotee or priest of Diana preparing to make ritual observances with the offering plate and incense burner. A group of similar figures was recovered from the shallows of Lake Nemi south of Rome, close to the site of the Temple of Diana.
