
Francesca Hickin
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Provenance:
Private collection, Germany, acquired in the 1990s.
Anonymous sale; Gorny and Mosch, Munich, 18 December 2013, lot 465.
Ornate silver vessels were part of the household of the Hellenistic elite, displaying the owner's wealth to family and friends. A silver cup decorated internally with a band of gold with the same scrolling motif as the present lot is in the Getty Museum, inv. no. 96.AM.161. For another example see M. True, A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman, Malibu, 1994, p. 226, no. 114.