Sale 7017
London
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26 - 27 October 2004
Price realised
GBP 2,629
Estimate
A SICILIAN TERRACOTTA RAM ASKOS 5TH CENTURY B.C. The ram-shaped vessel with cylindrical body and long curling horns, a side spout on the left shoulder and a central aperture with twin handles on centre back, with brown painted decoration 4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
Provenance
Ars Antiqua, Lagerkatalog IV, Lucerne, 1969, no. 22.
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Exhibited
Das Tier in der Antike, Archäologischen Institut der Universität Zürich, 21 September-17 November 1974, no. 80.
PUBLISHED: H. Bloesch et al., Das Tier in der Antike, Archäologischen Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, 1974, p. 47, pl. 48, no. 289; and Animals, 1981, I, no. 123.
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