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LOT 0054
Large Eastern Mediterranean Painted Terracotta Pitcher
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
8 7/8 in. (1.03 kg, 22.5 cm).
With a wide mouth, everted rim, and elongated, cylindrical neck, bulbous body with painted polychrome bands, a strap handle with painted linear decoration.
ProvenanceFrom a 1980s UK collection.
Acquired on the UK art market in the early 2000s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
Cf. Petrie, W.M.F., Brunton, G., Sedment II, London, 1924, pl. 276A, D, for a vessel of similar form bearing linear decoration, discovered in a late New Kingdom tomb at Sedment.
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LOT 0054
Large Eastern Mediterranean Painted Terracotta Pitcher
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,105
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Greek Terracotta Spindle Flask
Hellenistic, late 2nd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
With long narrow neck developing to a fusiform body and flared foot. 72 grams, 12 cm
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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Greek Red-Figure Bell Krater with Eros
Apulia, 4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,460
With flared and carinated foot, broad stem, ovoid body, carinated shoulder, everted rim with lip, D-shaped antefixes and lateral pendant loop handles; band of ivy to the neck and meander to the lower edge, frieze with figural scenes: Side A - seated female with thyrsos pointing towards Eros with head turned regarding her, wings spread; Side B - seated female in tiered robe pointing towards standing Eros with wreath, objects in the field; by the Ascoli Satriano Painter; restored. 1.81 kg, 33.5 cm
Ex private collection, previously with Bonhams, Bond Street, London, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13353-259030.
Female heads and Eros figures are common features on the vases attributed to the Ascoli Satriano Painter. His real name is unknown, and he has been named after a northern Apulian town, where many of his vases have been found. -
Greek Terracotta Toy Skyphos
Corinthian, circa 600 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Miniature skyphos with loop handles to the rim, painted horizontal bands to sidewall and vertical slashes; supplied with old collector's record card. 4.46 grams, 40 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.
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.
