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Lot 53*

A Greek bronze kantharos and a Greek bronze bowl
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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Greek bronze kantharos and a Greek bronze bowl
Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.
The kantharos set on a banded stemmed foot, the slender handles with leaf-shaped terminals, 11cm high; the bowl of hemispherical form with everted rim, an incised band beneath the rim and at the shoulder, the base of the exterior decorated with a large rosette, 13.5cm diam. (2)

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 75 and 76.
Private collection, West Coast USA, acquired at the above sale.

For a bronze kantharos with similar handles and stemmed foot, found in Northern Greece, near Thessaloniki, see C. Rolley, Les Bronzes Grecs, Fribourg, 1983, p. 240, no. 288.

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