Lot 47
47
FIVE HELLENISTIC SILVER VESSELS

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FIVE HELLENISTIC SILVER VESSELS
Circa 4th Century B.C.

Including a pair of cups with ornamental hemispherical bodies, plain concave necks and flaring rims, the shoulders with a band of guilloche between dotted borders above a scale pattern which diminshes in size as it descends to the elaborate rosette at the base; together with a larger cup with a gilt rosette at the base with radiating flutes terminating at a gilt band of guilloche below a band of Lesbian kymation; a smaller cup with a longer neck and more sharply flaring rim with a simple gilt rosette at the base with radiating flutes terminating at a gilt wreath between dotted borders; and a vase with a gilt band of egg and dart on the foot, a rosette on the base, with overlapping nymphaea nelumbo petals on the body, the inner petals gilt, with two gilt bands of ivy on the shoulders and a gilt band of egg and dot below the concave neck
5in. (12.7cm.) high for the vase

Lot Essay

Similar Hellenistic cups derived from Achaemenid prototypes, have been found in Macedonia, Bulgaria, south Russia and elsewhere. Compare the cup in the Kavalla Museum, no. 120 for example in Yalouris, et al., The Search for Alexander. For the vase see no. 31B in True and Hamma, eds., A Passion for Antiquities, Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman.