Sale 2605
New York
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5 December 2012
Price realised
USD 13,750
Estimate
A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C. With a standing winged Eros, his body frontal with his wings spread, his head turned to his right, his right hand raised over a thymiaterion, a phiale in his left hand above a stele; a band of meander below, ovolo above, rays on the shoulders 7 11/16 (19.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr. Hans Jessen (1909-2007), archaeologist at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin, acquired between 1960-1980. Leo Spik Auktionen, Berlin, 24 September 2011, lot 1840. with Ostracon, Thalwil, Switzerland, 2011.
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