



A Greek green glazed faience hedgehog aryballos
£3,000 - £5,000
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Joanna van der Lande
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Siobhan Quin
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Anna Marston
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A Greek green glazed faience hedgehog aryballos
7cm long, 5.5cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Captain George Fenwick-Owen Collection, acquired in Alexandria in the 1920s; thence by descent.
English private collection by descent from the above.
Reeman Dansie Auctioneers & Valuers, Colchester, Essex, 14 February 2012, lot 25.
with Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired at the above auction.
Antiquities, Bonhams London, 2 October 2014, lot 20 (unsold).
Tomasso: The More a Thing is Perfect, Sotheby's, London, 29 April 2021, lot 11.
Acquired by the present owner at the above auction.
There are related examples of faience hedgehog aryballoi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, obj. nos. 41.162.92 & 41.162.94. Such hedgehog aryballoi are of an East Greek type, but have been found in the Greek trading colony of Naucratis, Egypt; a vibrant trading post and the first and only permanent Greek settlement in Egypt.