AN EARLY CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS, BY THE BEAD PAINTER
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AN EARLY CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS, BY THE BEAD PAINTER

CIRCA 625-600 B.C.

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AN EARLY CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS, BY THE BEAD PAINTER
CIRCA 625-600 B.C.
Showing finely painted boar and owl, highly stylized rosettes in the field, tongues around rim and neck, dots on edge of rim and zigzag on handle, piece missing from base, 2¾ in. (6.1 cm.) high; another similar with an eagle, tongues around central depression on base, Middle Corinthian, circa 575 B.C., 2¾ in. (7 cm.) high; and a Late Protocorinthian ovoid aryballos with two friezes of running dogs, circa 625 B.C., 2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Item one: acquired from M. Willborg, Stockholm, 1977; previously from London in the 1960s.
Item two: acquired from Münzen und Medaillen, Basle, Spring, 1983.
Item three: acquired from Münzen und Medaillen, Basle fair, 1981, no. 30.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Item one: D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, Berkeley, 1988, app. II, no. 12bis.
Item three: C. W. Neeft, Protocorinthian Subgeometric Aryballoi, (Allard Pierson Series, 7), Amsterdam, 1987, p. 253, vase 'a'.

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