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LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A SICILIAN RED-FIGURE BOTTLE-FLASK
LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Painted with large female head in profile wearing sakkos, earrings and beaded necklace, large palmette and tendrils at the back, 6 in. (5.3 cm.) high; an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, with two female profile heads each wearing sakkos and diadem, two large palmettes between them, spiral hooks around the rim, 350-325 B.C., 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam; a black-glazed lekanis (without lid), with red painted rays below rim, 4th Century B.C., 4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam. excl. handles; and a Campanian black-glazed bowl, the interior with stamped decorative motif of meander squares and five volutes within concentric stippled circles, late 4th-early 3rd Century B.C., Vibius Group, 6¾ in. (17 cm.) diam. (4)
LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Painted with large female head in profile wearing sakkos, earrings and beaded necklace, large palmette and tendrils at the back, 6 in. (5.3 cm.) high; an Apulian red-figure lekanis lid, with two female profile heads each wearing sakkos and diadem, two large palmettes between them, spiral hooks around the rim, 350-325 B.C., 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam; a black-glazed lekanis (without lid), with red painted rays below rim, 4th Century B.C., 4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam. excl. handles; and a Campanian black-glazed bowl, the interior with stamped decorative motif of meander squares and five volutes within concentric stippled circles, late 4th-early 3rd Century B.C., Vibius Group, 6¾ in. (17 cm.) diam. (4)
Provenance
Property from the Collection of the Princely House of Liechtenstein; acquired by Prince Johann II (1840-1929) in the late 19th/early 20th Century.
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