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LOT 0630
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.
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LOT 0630
South Italian Blackware Kantharos with Ivy Branch
Estimate £1,200 - 1,700€1,390 - 1,970 (for guidance only)$1,620 - 2,300 (for guidance only)
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