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Lot 77*

An Attic marble funerary lekythos

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

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An Attic marble funerary lekythos
Late Classical Period, circa mid 4th Century B.C.
The funerary vessel sculpted in shallow relief with a departure scene, a bearded man standing to the left, wearing a mantle wrapped around his body, his chest exposed, clasping hands in a gesture of farewell with a woman standing facing him, their heads inclined, wearing a long pleated chiton and swathed in a himation, a girl, probably their daughter, standing to the right, wearing a long pleated chiton and holding a situla in her right hand, with faint traces of egg-and-dart decoration below the shoulder, 52.1cm high

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Provenance:
with André Emmerich Gallery, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1997, lot 90.
The Moscahlaidis family collection, acquired at the above sale.

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