A SICILIAN GNATHIA-WARE PYXIS AND LID

ATTRIBUTED TO THE VINE GROUP, CIRCA 300 B.C.

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A SICILIAN GNATHIA-WARE PYXIS AND LID
ATTRIBUTED TO THE VINE GROUP, CIRCA 300 B.C.
The body decorated in added white and yellow with a vine with two bunches of grapes and four lobed leaves, with spiral tendrils between, a band of dots below the rim, the high knobbed lid with berried ivy wreath, with band of dots below
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9-10 July 1992, lot 351.
William Suddaby collection, USA.
Ancient Vases from the William Suddaby collection; Christie's, New York, 9 December 2005, lot 270.

Exhibited

Tampa Museum of Art, A View into Antiquity: pottery from the Collection of Willian Suddaby and David Meier, 14 October 2001-13 January 2002.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. J. Paul, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of Willian Suddaby and David Meier, exhibition catalogue, Tampa Museum of Art, 2001, no. 49.

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