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LOT 0548

South Italian Blackware Kantharos with Ivy Branch

5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

9 1/8 in. (472 grams, 23.3 cm high).

The high-handled drinking cup with carinated lower body, discoid feet and vines painted to the equator.

Provenance

Acquired in Europe before 1994.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1993.197, for a similar 5th century Boeotian example.

CONDITION

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LOT 0548

South Italian Blackware Kantharos with Ivy Branch

Estimate £1,500 - 2,000€1,740 - 2,320 (for guidance only)$2,030 - 2,700 (for guidance only)

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