Lot Essay
In personal correspondence from 1971 between the owner and Dietrich von Bothmer, curator of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, von Bothmer informed that the glaux was known to him since 1961, and that while not attributed, there are two parallels, one found in Cagliari in Sardinia, and one from Cerveteri, now in the Villa Giulia (inv. 47506).