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ATTRIBUTED TO THE SELINUNTE GROUP, CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A SICILIAN POTTERY ASKOS IN THE FORM OF SKYLLA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE SELINUNTE GROUP, CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
6 7⁄8 in. (17.4 cm.) long
ATTRIBUTED TO THE SELINUNTE GROUP, CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
6 7⁄8 in. (17.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby’s, London 29 March 1971, lot 120.
Herbert James Powell Bomford (1896-1979), London; thence by descent.
The Bomford Collection of Ancient Terra-Cotta Figures: The Property of the late H.J.P. Bomford, Esq.; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1979, lot 270.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1982, lot 292.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 17 May 1983, lot 296.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.
Clark Collection, MI, acquired from the above, 1983.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2005 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVI, no. 109).
with Phoenix Ancient Art, New York and Geneva, acquired from the above, 2004 (Argos: The Dog in Antiquity, 2022, no. 39).
Herbert James Powell Bomford (1896-1979), London; thence by descent.
The Bomford Collection of Ancient Terra-Cotta Figures: The Property of the late H.J.P. Bomford, Esq.; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1979, lot 270.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1982, lot 292.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 17 May 1983, lot 296.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.
Clark Collection, MI, acquired from the above, 1983.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2005 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVI, no. 109).
with Phoenix Ancient Art, New York and Geneva, acquired from the above, 2004 (Argos: The Dog in Antiquity, 2022, no. 39).
Literature
B. Heldring, Sicilian Plastic Vases, Utrecht, 1981, p. 86, no. 14.
P.R.S. Moorey, Ancient Glass, Jewellery and Terracottas from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Bomford, Oxford, 1971, p. 58, no. 148.
P.R.S. Moorey, Ancient Glass, Jewellery and Terracottas from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Bomford, Oxford, 1971, p. 58, no. 148.
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Ancient Glass, Jewellery and Terracottas from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Bomford, 20 November-12 December 1971.
Detroit Institute of Art, 1983-2004.
Detroit Institute of Art, 1983-2004.
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