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South Italian Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl South Italian Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl South Italian Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl
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LOT 0051

South Italian Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

6 7/8 in. (239 grams, 17.5 cm).

With mammiform body, pedestal base and two loop handles; each side with a facing image of an owl between laurel fronds.

Provenance

Swiss private collection, assembled in the 1960s-1970s.
Private collection, acquired in 2013.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12854-241751.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

See Johnson, F. B., ‘An Owl Skyphos’, in Mylonas, G., Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson on His Seventieth Birthday, vol. 2, St. Louis, 1953, pp.96-105.

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LOT 0051

South Italian Red-Figure Skyphos with Owl

Estimate £3,000 - 4,000€3,480 - 4,640 (for guidance only)$4,050 - 5,400 (for guidance only)

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