CIRCA 540-530 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED BAND CUP
CIRCA 540-530 B.C.
The obverse with mouse, wasp, beetle and two grasshoppers, the reverse with three deer and two panthers
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) diam. excl. handles

Provenance

with Bruce McAlpine, London.
with Charles Ede Ltd., London.
Leo Mildenberg (1913-2001) collection, Zurich.
A Peaceable Kingdom, The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals; Christie's, London, 26-27 October 2004, lot 32.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. S. Walker (ed.), Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Part III, Mainz am Rhein, 1996, no. 4.
P. E. Mottahedeh (ed.), Out of Noah's Ark, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, 1997, no. 2.

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