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    • A GREEK BRONZE SQUAT LEKYTHOS
    Lot 165 | VARIOUS PROPERTIES Read more

    A GREEK BRONZE SQUAT LEKYTHOS

    LATE CLASSICAL TO EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 350-300 B.C.

    Price realised

    USD 5,875

    Estimate

    USD 5,000 - USD 7,000

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    A GREEK BRONZE SQUAT LEKYTHOS
    Late Classical to Early Hellenistic Period,
    Circa 350-300 B.C.
    Cast with a globular body on a low foot, with a cylindrical neck and wide funnel-shaped mouth, a thin raised molding at the base of the neck, a thicker one on the underside of the rim, the handle with a stylized foliate terminal on the body with details highlighted in silver, additional silver in the center of the concentric rings on the underside of the foot
    4 in. (10.2 cm) high

    Provenance

    Antiquities, Sotheby's New York, 17 December 1997, lot 132

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    Lot Essay

    For a similar example in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki see no. 133 in Yalouris, et al., The Search for Alexander.

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    VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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