Lot 83
83
A GREEK PARCEL-GILT SILVER CALYX CUP
A GREEK PARCEL-GILT SILVER CALYX CUP
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A GREEK PARCEL-GILT SILVER CALYX CUP

EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK PARCEL-GILT SILVER CALYX CUP
EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
2 3⁄4 in. (6.9 cm.) high
Provenance
with Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Paris, by 1940.
Fahim Joseph Kouchakji (1886-1976), New York; thence by descent.
Property from the Collection of the Late Fahim Kouchakji; Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21 May 1977, lot 137.

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Lot Essay

Such calyx cups and other silver vessels were especially popular in Macedonia during the period of Alexander the Great and his successors. For the form but undecorated, see nos. 99-100 in E. Zimi, Late Classical and Hellenistic Silver Plate from Macedonia.

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