PAIR OF GREEK RED-FIGURE AND BLACK-GLAZED VESSELS (SQUAT LEKYTHOS AND OLPE)

Ca. 450 - 300 BC. A pair of black-glaze vessels, from left to right: a red-figure squat lekythos with an ovoid body on a low ring foot, a narrow neck with flaring mouth and a single loop handle joining the shoulder to the neck, decorated with a nude satyr bending forward and grasping drapery, with a large palmette beneath the handle flanked by upright vegetal tendrils; and an olpe with a globular body, tall concave neck, broad flaring rim and a single loop handle. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 2021.40.32. Size: 120-175mm x 95-95mm; Weight: 495g Provenance: London private collection; ex South German collection, European art market, 1980s–1990s.

Estimate:£400

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