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CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
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THREE GREEK SILVER VESSELS
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Including a small jug with an ovoid body on a splayed foot, with a cylindrical neck and flaring rim, the lower body fluted, the shoulders with long tongues descending from the join of the neck, a band of incised saltire squares in between, an incised rosette on the underside, the separately-cast high-arching handle terminating in palmettes at the joins to the body and the rim, a single tongue opposite the handle embellished with crosshatching; a ladle with a shallow bowl and a tall fluted stem, an incised palmette on the bowl below, the stem with an inward-turning loop handle terminating in a calf head with chased details; and a phiale with fluted tongues radiating from the omphalos, the flaring rim offset from the bowl by horizontal profiled bands
Phiale: 6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) diameter (3)
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Including a small jug with an ovoid body on a splayed foot, with a cylindrical neck and flaring rim, the lower body fluted, the shoulders with long tongues descending from the join of the neck, a band of incised saltire squares in between, an incised rosette on the underside, the separately-cast high-arching handle terminating in palmettes at the joins to the body and the rim, a single tongue opposite the handle embellished with crosshatching; a ladle with a shallow bowl and a tall fluted stem, an incised palmette on the bowl below, the stem with an inward-turning loop handle terminating in a calf head with chased details; and a phiale with fluted tongues radiating from the omphalos, the flaring rim offset from the bowl by horizontal profiled bands
Phiale: 6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) diameter (3)
Provenance
German Private Collection, 1986.
Acquired by the current owner in 2002.
Acquired by the current owner in 2002.