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Lot 294

Nine Corinthian pottery vessels
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3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Nine Corinthian pottery vessels
Circa late 7th Century-6th Century B.C.
Comprising of two piriform aryballoi with tongues on the shoulder and incised decoration, one with rows of scales; an alabastron decorated with a winged Boread and a swan; a piriform aryballos with two animal friezes; an alabastron with an animal frieze, the body slightly flaring to a flat base; a globular aryballos decorated with a swan and cockerel with outstretched wings; a ring aryballos; and two alabastra, variously decorated with panthers and griffins, 6cm-12cm high (9)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Aryballos with animal friezes: Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 April 1984, lot 151.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.
Alabastron: Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1970s.
Remaining seven vessels: Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired prior to 1995.

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