CIRCA 625-600 B.C.

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AN EARLY CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE SYDNEY CLUSTER
CIRCA 625-600 B.C.
The spherical body with frieze depicting a stag flanked by two lions and a bull beneath the handle, rosette and dot infill, dotted and tongued bands above and below with horizontal zigzags on fragmentary handle, neck missing
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, Berkeley, 1988, p. 129, no. 6; and Animals, 1996, III, no. 152.

Comparing the above aryballos to an example in New York, Leo noted: "The lions on our aryballos, however, are still not attacking and, therefore, fit into the collection".

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