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LOT 0503

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,105

SOUTH ITALIAN BLACKWARE WINE KANTHAROS WITH VINE
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.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the late 1980.
Ex S.A. collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

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

CONDITION
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