Sale 7183
London
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18 October 2005
Price realised
GBP 5,040
Estimate
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE WITH FIGURE OF NIKE 440-430 B.C. The body with flying winged Nike wearing chiton and himation, her hair bound in a sakkos, goundline below, the reverse with a youth wrapped in his himation, arm extended in front, band of ovolo on the neck, repaired 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Wilhelm Horn (1870-1959).
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Exhibited
Antiken aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, Rheinischen Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1973-1974.
PUBLISHED: Antiken aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, Rheinischen Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1973-1974, p. 45, no. 58, pl. 26.
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