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CIRCA 480 B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE
CIRCA 480 B.C.
Side A: standing youth to left, leaning on staff, holding out a tortoise-shell lyre with hanging pipe case to another youth heavily muffled in a himation, both wearing wreaths in added red, hanging on the wall between them a strigil, string bag (for knuckle-bones) and wreath
Side B: similar scene with youth holding out a round object (sponge?) to a heavily draped youth holding a tortoise-shell lyre, both sides with row of cross-linked flowers and dots above the scenes and zigzag dots in double lines at the sides
12in. (30.5 cm.) high
CIRCA 480 B.C.
Side A: standing youth to left, leaning on staff, holding out a tortoise-shell lyre with hanging pipe case to another youth heavily muffled in a himation, both wearing wreaths in added red, hanging on the wall between them a strigil, string bag (for knuckle-bones) and wreath
Side B: similar scene with youth holding out a round object (sponge?) to a heavily draped youth holding a tortoise-shell lyre, both sides with row of cross-linked flowers and dots above the scenes and zigzag dots in double lines at the sides
12in. (30.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Inherited by the present owner from his late father and grandfather's collection.
This lot is accompanied by an export licence from the French Ministry of Culture.
This lot is accompanied by an export licence from the French Ministry of Culture.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis
Sale room notice
This lot has been attributed to the Leningrad Painter.