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LOT 0647
Hellenistic Bronze Sitting Statuette of a Demon
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (71.5 grams total, 78 mm including stand).
Modelled nude in seated pose with legs astride and right arm bent, the grotesque face slightly raised, horns to the crown; mounted on a custom-made stand; Eastern Greek. [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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Cypriot Terracotta Tubular Idol Head
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Columnar in form with lateral lugs pierced at the lower edge and impressed eyes; painted ings above and below; with old inked label to verso: '215'. 21.4 grams, 76 mm
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Greek Archaic Painted Terracotta Skyphos
7th-early 6th century B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £222
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. -
Cypriot Terracotta Jug with Bull's Head
Cypro-Archaic II - Cypro-Classical I, 600-400 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Comprising a bulbous body with conical flanged base, tubular neck and everted flange rim with chamfered upper face, loop handle to the shoulder with applied strip to the outer face and disc to each side; small spout to the shoulder formed as a bull's head; painted bands to the equator, base and lower neck. 1.5 kg, 37.5 cm
Asian collection, purchased 1968-1972. with Christie's, New York, 8 June 2001, no.127. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
