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LOT 0067
South Italian Red-Figure Krateriskos
4TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/8 in. (89 grams, 79 mm wide).
With globular body and carinated flat shoulder, flared mouth and low foot with collar, lateral ledge handles; painted with radiating lines to the shoulder and profile 'ladies of fashion' busts with white detailing; old collector's label '19' to underside.
ProvenanceSwiss private collection, 19th century.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-late 1990s.
From a European family collection, thence by descent.
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