Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

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Property from a European Private Collection

An Apulian Red-figured Rhyton, circa 350-330 B.C.

Auction Closed

December 7, 04:32 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a European Private Collection

An Apulian Red-figured Rhyton

circa 350-330 B.C.


in the form of the head of a goat, with carefully modeled naturalistic features, the neck decorated with a seated woman holding a cista in her raised left hand and a wreath in her lowered right hand, palmettes flanking the handle, tongues on the slanted rim.

Length 19.2 cm.


private collection, Boulogne-sur-Seine, probably acquired in the 1970s
by descent to the present owner