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Lot 298

An Etrusco-Corinthian pottery olpe

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

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An Etrusco-Corinthian pottery olpe
Circa early 6th Century B.C.
The body decorated in three registers with panthers, a goat, a boar, an ox and swans, rosettes interspersed throughout, divided by concentric bands, three white dotted rosettes on the neck, the ribbed handle with side rotelles, each decorated with star rosettes, the rim interior with red and white painted bands, further details in added crimson and white, 30.5cm high

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Provenance:
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, acquired 1970s.

For a similar olpe, see an example by the Rosoni Painter in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, acc. no. 1925.346.7.

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