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LOT 0066

Large Hellenistic Banded Alabaster Hydria

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY BC

19 1/4" (8 kg, 49cm).

A finely-fashioned, large banded alabaster hydria vessel formed in one piece, incorporating a foot ring, everted rim and a single handle extending from rim to body, with two shallow lugs to shoulders.

Provenance

Formerly in the private collection of Mr R.C., an antiquities dealer at the Sablon in Brussels, Belgium; acquired in the 1970s; accompanied by a scholarly note TL5332 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz, and a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00148363; this lot has also been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a copy of the IADAA certificate number no.31032020/1227.

Literature

For other examples see pp.2-3, fig.5 in Pagenstecher, Die griechisch-ägyptische Samlung E. Von Sieglin, vol.III: Die Gefässe in Stein und Ton, Knochenschnitzereien, and p.23, pl.XVI in Breccia, Le Musée Gréco-Romain d'Alexandrie, 1925-1931.

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