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Lot 58

A large Etrusco-Corinthian black-figure olpe

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

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A large Etrusco-Corinthian black-figure olpe
Circa early 6th Century B.C.
The body divided into five registers, each with a frieze of various animals, including swans, lions, panthers and deer, rosettes interspersed throughout, divided by concentric bands, the strap handle surmounted with white-dotted rotelles on either side, details incised with added white and red, 49.5cm high

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Provenance:
with Galerie Archéologie Borowski, Paris.
James Stirt, Switzerland, acquired from the above in December 1991.

For a similar Italo-Corinthian olpe with five registers of animals, see Beazley Archive vase no. 1013363.

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