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Lot 36

An Attic black-figure band cup

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £7,000

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An Attic black-figure band cup
Circa 530 B.C.
Each side with a central running nude male flanked by winged horses, scrolling palmettes on either side of the handles, the reserved tondo with dotted circle, details in added white and red, 21.9cm wide, 13cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13-14 July 1981, lot 271.
Private collection, London, acquired from the above sale.

Cf. a band cup at the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz, Beazley Archive no. 1777, with similar winged horses and nude runners. Another very close example was sold at Bonhams in 1995, Beazley Archive no. 28075. For another white, winged horse, see a band cup in the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow, Beazley Archive no. 350915.

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