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Lot 731

A GROUP OF GREEK SOUTH ITALIAN BLACK TERRACOTTA VESSELS (10)

Circa 5th to 3rd Century BC
Comprising a small black glaze squat lekythos with ribbing, collection label, 8.5cm; a Greek black glaze duck shaped askos with strap handle, Campania, 12.5cm high; a Greek South Italian small Xenon Ware chous, with quatrefoil lip and palmette decoration, 5cm high; a Greek red-figure lidded lekanis with female side profile head, 10cm high; a twin handled kylix with stem, 15cm wide; four Greek lekythos vessels and and a ribbed black glaze twin handled flask, 9.5cm high

Estimate: £200 - £400
Hammer price: £1,500
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Provenance: 

The black glazed ribbed lekythos - Charles Ede Ltd. 2008 (#7327)  and formerly, Mainwaring Collection, acquired 1975 from an English Private Collection 

The askos - Charles Ede Ltd. 1995 (#1316) 

The Xenon ware chous - Charles Ede Ltd. #8438 acquired from The Broadbent Collection 

The pyxis (or lekanis ?)  - Charles Ede Ltd. 2001 #4699

The kylix - Charles Ede Ltd. 1992 #7651

The three lekythos Charles Ede. Ltd, #1631 #1722 #6315 




Condition report: 

Please see additional images to see the various chips, knocks, scuffs, rubbings and losses commensurate with age and use.  Pigment losses and rubbing. One ribbed bottle with an indentation which looks to be at the point of manufacture - see images. Probably some small repairs but not clearly visible. 

We recommend viewing in person. Sold as seen. 




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