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Lot 27

A Greek skyphos with chequer pattern

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

Sold for £1,785 inc. premium

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A Greek skyphos with chequer pattern
South Italy, circa late 5th-early 4th Century B.C.
Decorated on both sides with a chequer-board pattern, flanked by bands of dots with an upper border of vertical lines, palmettes beneath the handles, 8.3cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1976, lot 327.
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale.

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