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Lot 28

An Attic black-figure Little Master band-cup

Antiquities
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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An Attic black-figure Little Master band-cup

Circa 550-530 B.C.
14.3cm high, 21.7cm diam

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Provenance:
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 7 November 2001, lot 316.
American private collection.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Published:
P. Heesen, 'Meaningless, But Not Useless! Nonsense Inscriptions on Athenian Little-Master Cups' in D. Yatromanolakis (ed.), Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings, Oxford, 2016, pp. 103-4, no. 98.
A.J. Clark, Some Practical Aspects of Attic Black-figured Olpai and Oinochoai, in A. Tsingarida (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th - 4th centuries B.C.), Brussels, 2009, p. 97, table 2.

The above cup has an encircling band with a nonsensical inscription in Greek text on both sides, a single scrolling palmette springing from either side of the handles, handle-zone A: χαιχαχε(.)π(.)(ι)υ; handle zone B: χ[ ]λ(.)λπ (ε)(α)(ε)(α)(α)υ.

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