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Lot 18

A miniature Cypriot alabaster lekythos
and a Roman marble pestle,
2

Amended
3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £701.25 inc. premium

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A miniature Cypriot alabaster lekythos
Hellenistic Period, circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.
With a ribbed rim and flaring foot, the handle with notched decoration, the shoulder incised with two encircling linear bands, 9cm high; and a Roman marble pestle, circa 1st Century A.D., in the form of a bent finger, 7cm x 4.5cm (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alabaster flask: Dr H. A. Fawcett (1891-1982) collection, UK.
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the early 1970s at Sotheby's, London.

There is a similarly decorated miniature Hellenistic alabaster amphora with ribbed lip and stepped foot from the Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 74.51.5135.

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