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LOT 0503

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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LOT 0503

South Italian Blackware Wine Kantharos with Vine

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,105

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