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Lot 34

An Apulian red-figure epichysis

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

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An Apulian red-figure epichysis
Circa 350-300 B.C.
With a head of winged Eros on the shoulder, wearing a radiate stephane, sakkos, beaded necklace and earring, a palmette beneath the handle, a wave pattern around the flanged shoulder and base, an ivy-leaf pattern on the body, with mascarons on both sides of the beaked spout, 18cm high

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

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