Lot 109
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Five Greek Vases, early 5th/4th Century B.C.

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Five Greek Vases
  • Heights 5 13/16 to 8 in. 14.8 to 20.3 cm.
comprising an Attic black-figured olpe painted with Dionysos flanked by two dancing satyrs, dotted vines in the field, an Attic black-figured lekythos painted with Dionysos reclining on a couch and attended by three figures, dotted vines in the background, an Attic red-figured pelike decorated with the head of a woman facing right and wearing a sakkos, a siren before her, the reverse with two confronted draped youths, an Attic red-figured hydria painted with a maenad facing left and holding a thyrsos before a draped winged figure, and an Apulian red-figured amphora decorated on one side with a chiton-clad girl holding a wreath, and on the other side with a running youth carrying a phiale or basket. 

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 17th, 1978, no. 82, for the second
Richard Tully Collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 17th, 1978, no. 87), for the fifth
French private collection (Sothebys, New York, June 12th, 2003, no. 166), for the first, third, and fourth
Charles Pankow Collection, San Francisco (Sotheby's, New York, December 9th, 2004, no. 362, illus., for the second and fifth)