650-600 B.C.

Details

THREE EARLY CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRA
650-600 B.C.
An alabastron with a large swan in profile on the body with outstretched wings, behind an owl with head facing front, rosettes in the field, rays around everted rim, neck and base, 625-600 B.C.; another, the body painted in red and black with two facing seated winged sphinxes, a prancing hare between them with its paws on the breast of the sphinx to the right, rosettes in the field, rays around rim and base, zigzag down the handle, repaired, 650-625 B.C.; and another alabastron, the pale buff body with broad horizontal bands with added red between which four bands of dotted strokes, circles around the rim and tongues on neck, 625-600 B.C.
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high max. (3)

Provenance

Acquired in 1972, 1958 and 1973 respectively.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Item three: Antike Kunst, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1975, no. 60.

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