CIRCA 575-550 B.C.

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A LATE CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS
CIRCA 575-550 B.C.
With large quatrefoil motif, lateral cross-hatched leaves, petals beneath, short rays below neck, concentric circles on broad flat rim, 2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high; a Protocorinthian flat-bottomed Geometric aryballos with fine line decoration, mid-7th Century B.C., 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high; a Subgeometric Late Protocorinthian ovoid aryballos with frieze of three dogs between sets of lines, rays around foot and rim, circa 625 B.C., 2 5/8 in. (6.8 cm.) high; and an Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos belonging to the Toronto sub-group of the Cycle of the Confronting Cocks, showing two animals, rosette infill, lines above and below, circa 575-550 B.C., 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high (4)

Provenance

Item one: acquired in Stockholm, 2004; and formerly in a Swedish private collection.
Item two: acquired in Southern Germany, 1982.
Items three and four: acquired from M. Willborg, Stockholm, 1979; and formerly in a Swedish private collection.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Items two and three: C. W. Neeft, Protocorinthian Subgeometric Aryballoi, (Allard Pierson Series, 7), Amsterdam, 1987, p. 454, List XIII, size-class m vase 9 and Lucifero type List LXXXI vase F-2 respectively.
Item three: Exhibition catalogue, Förnimmelser, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, 1983, no. 10.

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