ATTRIBUTED TO THE LUXUS GROUP, LATE 7TH-EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.

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A LARGE EARLY CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON
ATTRIBUTED TO THE LUXUS GROUP, LATE 7TH-EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.
With a beared male siren facing right with outspread wings, rosettes in the field, band of double dots above and below, base with large rosette, rays around the neck and rim, dots around rim edge
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Provenance

With Herbert Cahn, Basel, 1964.
With Andre Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York, 1964.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 11 July 1990, lot 142.
English private collection, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1997, lot 301.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 6 December 2006, lot 27.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Masterpieces of Greek Vases Painting, 7th-5th Century B.C., Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc, New York, 1964, no. 5.
D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, I, Los Angeles, 1988, p. 92, no. 21.
C. W. Neeft, Addenda and Corrigenda to D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, (Allard Pierson Series - Scripta Minora, 3) Amsterdam, 1991, p. 34.

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