A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS
A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS
A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS
A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS
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A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS

ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROS
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
7 ¾ in. (19.6 cm.) wide
Provenance
Baron Joseph van der Elst (1896–1971), Brussels and Biot, France; thence by descent.
Property from the van der Elst Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 7 December 2001, lot 286.
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February-August 2006.

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Lot Essay

This unusual cup is ornamented with incised details, including egg-and-dart on the splayed foot and a band of tongues above a lotus bud chain on the neck below the overhanging rim. Surmounting the two wide strap handles is a roaring lion with a stippled mane, facing inwards. For a related example from the Argive Heraion, with a single handle surmounted by a sphinx, now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, see no. 264 in C. Rolley, Greek Bronzes.

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