4A miniature South Italian Xenon pottery juglet with round mouth, decorated with laurel frieze and rays in applied red; a similar miniature nestoris with painted scrolls --2½in. (6.2cm.) high max., 4th Century B.C.; a Corinthian pottery pyxis with concave sides and two pierced lugs, the interior and exterior painted with black and purple encircling bands and vertical lines -- 3in. (8.2cm.) high; three Corinthian pottery shards similarly painted with incised figural decoration -- 4in. (10cm.) long max., all circa 6th Century B.C.; a Roman bronze jar with globular body and everted rim -- 3in. (8.2cm.) high, circa 1st Century A.D.; and a Fatimid pottery shard with incised male figure -- 2½in. (7.2cm.) long max., 13th-14th Century A.D

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4A miniature South Italian Xenon pottery juglet with round mouth, decorated with laurel frieze and rays in applied red; a similar miniature nestoris with painted scrolls --2½in. (6.2cm.) high max., 4th Century B.C.; a Corinthian pottery pyxis with concave sides and two pierced lugs, the interior and exterior painted with black and purple encircling bands and vertical lines -- 3in. (8.2cm.) high; three Corinthian pottery shards similarly painted with incised figural decoration -- 4in. (10cm.) long max., all circa 6th Century B.C.; a Roman bronze jar with globular body and everted rim -- 3in. (8.2cm.) high, circa 1st Century A.D.; and a Fatimid pottery shard with incised male figure -- 2½in. (7.2cm.) long max., 13th-14th Century A.D
See illustration on previous page for items one and two (8)

Lot Essay

For the first two items in this lot, c.f. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, ed. M. E. Mayo, 12 May - 8 August 1982, p.304, no.159

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