A TRANSITIONAL CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON

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ORDER OF SALE Auction at 2.30 p.m. following The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals Corinthian and Attic Vases from a Swedish Private Collection lots 420-467 Classical lots 468-492 Near Eastern and Egyptian lots 493-522 PROPERTY FROM A SWEDISH PRIVATE COLLECTION Lots 420-467 were originally acquired primarily as a study collection of Corinthian pottery, resulting in an unusually large number of different vase forms, as well as examples from named painters and workshops.

A TRANSITIONAL CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD BETWEEN PROTOCORINTHIAN AND CORINTHIAN, 640-625 B.C.

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A TRANSITIONAL CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD BETWEEN PROTOCORINTHIAN AND CORINTHIAN, 640-625 B.C.
Decorated with unusual scene of two fabulous creatures in confrontation, each with the bodies of birds and the heads of snarling lions, the right figure rendered schematically as a winged bust, with tongues around base, neck and rim, dots around rim edge, the handle painted black
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Jean Lauffenburger collection, Geneva: sold Sotheby's London, 13 and 14 July 1987, lot 252.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. Chamay and J.-L. Maier, Céramiques Corinthiennes, Hellas and Rome III, Geneva, 1984, pp. 94-95.

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