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Provenance:
Collection label inscribed:'Found under the church of Saint Ruiz, Sorrento.'
Estate of Mrs Audrey Jane Smith, Stanwick, North Yorkshire.
London art market.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 November 2001, lot 98.
Private collection, London, acquired at the above sale.
with Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired from the above in 2011.
There is a similar Greek foot guttus from South Italy in the British Museum, museum no. 1772,0320.687, and another similar in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 06.1021.263; both examples also have a strainer at the top and a lion-headed spout at the back of the heel. The above lot retains a rattle within.