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Lot 295

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

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Eight Corinthian pottery vessels
Circa late 7th Century-6th Century B.C.
Comprising a large alabastron decorated with a winged panther and bird; two smaller alabastra, one with a pair of owls, another decorated with concentric bands; an ovoid alabastron; an aryballos decorated with hoplites; a biconical aryballos with encircling bands around the middle; a piriform aryballos with tongues around the shoulder and base; and an open-work kalathos, 6.3cm-13.8cm high (8)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Large alabastron: Paulette Goddard Remarque Collection.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 July 1977, lot 84.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.
Biconical aryballos, piriform aryballos and oinochoe: Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1970s.
Remaining vessels: Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired prior to 1995.

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