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LOT 0566
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 0566
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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Cypriot Mixed Terracotta Vessel Fragments
3rd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Including fragments of storage vessel, bowl and other items, some with painted ornament, some with handle and rim elements. 3.9 kg total, 2.5-22 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
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Archaic Cypriot Head of a Male Votary
6th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Fragmentary head from a votive limestone figure of a male with long hair arranged inside a plain diadem above his forehead; the face with almond-shaped eyes sculpted in relief, arched eyebrows, and exhibiting the ‘archaic smile’; mounted on a display block. 381 grams total, 15 cm high including stand
Ex Professor Hans Dahn (1919-2019), Lausanne, Switzerland. -
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Etruscan Bronze Figure of Warring Mars
6th century B.C.Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,700
The Etrusco-Italic warrior Laran (Roman Mars) modelled in the round, representing a young muscular hero with long torso and rounded shoulders, wearing a high-crested Illyrian helmet with grooved perimeter, a hole above each ear for attaching an ornament; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 326 grams total, 16.2 cm high including stand
Ex Koutoulakis collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch, Munich, 17 June 1999, no.2051. with Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, no.16. with Christie's, London, 2 April 2014, no.125. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11803-206793.
The statuette assumes the position of the 'warring Mars', which characterises the numerous Etruscan and Italic statues of the god produced as votive offerings to the temples or for private lararia. The god is depicted as taking part in a military march with his left leg advancing, his raised right would have held a spear and the left hand a shield.
