GROTTA-PELOS CULTURE, CIRCA 3000-2800 B.C.

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A LARGE CYCLADIC MARBLE KANDILA
GROTTA-PELOS CULTURE, CIRCA 3000-2800 B.C.
The broad rounded body with pronounced shoulder, tapering neck and four crescentic lug handles pierced for suspension, on hollow pedestal foot, with contoured upper rim, rim chip
10 3/8 in. (26.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Sold Sotheby's London, 14 July 1975, lot 211.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. Thimme (ed.), Marmorkunst der Kykladen, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1989, 9, no. 4.

Cf. P. Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, Pennsylvania State University, 1996, pl. 17b for a kandila of similar form, attributable to Kandila Sculptor B.

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