A miscellanous group of antiquities 7
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A miscellanous group of antiquities
Circa 8th Century B.C. - 4th Century A.D.
Including a Cypriot miniature bichrome pottery flask, circa 750-600 B.C.; a small Attic black-figure lekythos, decorated with palmettes, circa 5th Century B.C.; two Roman green glass flasks, circa 3rd Century A.D.; a Palestinian pottery flask, circa 3rd Century A.D.; two Roman terracotta oil lamps, circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.; and another Byzantine terracotta oil lamp with red slip, circa 6th-8th Century A.D., the vessels 3¼in-7½in (8.5cm-19cm) high; the oil lamps 4¼in-4½in (11cm-11.5cm) long (8)
Estimate:
£500 - 600
US$ 750 - 910
€580 - 700

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Victor Gulotta Collection, Massachusetts.
    The glass vessels and oil lamps: English private collection, Cambridge, formed in the 1980s.
    The lekythos: Wally Lewis Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona, acquired in the late 1980s.
    Cypriot flask: deaccessioned property of the Stanford University Museum, May 1968. Cesnola Collection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1896. With accompanying paperwork from Stanford University.

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