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LOT 0592
South Italian Blackware Kantharos with Ivy Branch
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
8 3/4 in. (525 grams, 22.2 cm).
The high-handled drinking cup with carinated lower body, discoid feet and vines painted to the equator.
ProvenanceAcquired in the late-1980.
Ex S.A. collection.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1993.197, for a similar 5th century Boeotian example.
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LOT 0592
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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