Five Greek Antiquities, late 5th/late 4th Century B.C.

comprising a terracotta protome of a goddess, circa late 5th/early 4th Century B.C., her hands lifted to her breasts, and wearing a chiton and peplos, her centrally parted wavy hair surmounted by a flaring polos, a Campanian red-figured fish plate, attributed to the Robinson Painter, circa 350-330 B.C., painted with a torpedo and two breams, a wave pattern on the overhanging rim, a black-glazed fish plate with reserved band above the rim, a Gnathia-ware pelike, circa late 4th century B.C., painted with a profile head a woman facing left and wearing a sakkos between scrolling flowering tendrils, egg-and-dot bands above and below, and a Gnathia-ware mug attributed to the Laurel Spray Group, probably by the Amphorae Painter, circa 330-320 B.C., with double handle tied in a Herakles knot, the body painted with a head of Nike flanked by rosettes.

J.J. Klejman, New York, and Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 22nd, 1974, no. 199, illus., for the first
acquired in Europe or Japan in the 1970s, for the second, third, fourth, and fifth

Kokusai Bijutsu Ltd., Tokyo, 5th Exhibition Catalogue, 1977, no. 89, illus,. for the fifth
Kokusai Bijutsu, Ltd., Tokyo, 6th Exhibition Catalogue, 1978, no. 77, illus., for the first

the protome: repaired and with areas of restoration, heavily encrusted; the pelike: foot reattached and chipped, the body intact, surface encrusted in areas, especially in the decorated area, added white on the face worn, paint on rim abraded; decorated fish-plate:good, intact, much of the paint in the rim area above one fish worn away (visible in photo); black fish-plate: intact, some small chips to the glaze retouched, abrasions on the rim and underneath; mug: areas of restoration on the rim, otherwise good, paint worn in the wings area.
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