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Lot 31

An Apulian red-figure lekanis

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

£1,000 - £1,500

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An Apulian red-figure lekanis
Circa 4th Century B.C.
The knopped lid with a female head, dressed in a sakkos, radiate stephane and necklace, separated by two large palmettes from a crouching figure of winged Eros, his nude body adorned with jewellery, his hair dressed in a sakkos, holding a situla and box, with added white and yellow, 17cm high

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Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the early 1970s.

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