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LOT 0062
Terracotta Painted Lekythos by the Gela Painter
CIRCA 490 B.C.
13 in. (715 grams, 33 cm).
With cylindrical body and bevelled shoulder, stepped foot; three connecting palmettes above the shoulder with two flanking lotus flowers, meander pattern below; decorated with a scene from a fountain house comprising a building with three columns, water flowing from animal-shaped fountain heads into two hydria, two women approaching the vessels by stepping onto the upper step, both wearing a long himation and their hair tied up in krobyloi, two men approaching the building behind the women, dressed in cloaks and leaning on sticks, the man on the left holding a conical cup, a seated dog at his feet; restored.
ProvenanceEx Jean-David Cahn AG, Auction 4, Kunstwerke der Antike, 19 October 2002, no.234.
Private collection.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Jean-David Cahn AG catalogue pages.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12642-236377.
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.
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