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Lot 33

An Apulian red-figure lidded mug

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

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An Apulian red-figure lidded mug
Circa 350-300 B.C.
Decorated with a large profile head of Eros wearing a stephane, sakkos, beaded necklace and earring, framed by wings and a large palmette, a band of laurel leaves on the neck, the knopped lid decorated with two palmettes and miniature heads in profile, with Herakles knot handle, details in added white and yellow, 20cm high (incl. lid)

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

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