Lot 110
  • 110

Five Greek Black-glazed Vases , 5th/early 4th Century B.C.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Five Greek Black-glazed Vases
  • Heights 2 1/4 to 6 3/4 in. 5.7 to 17.1 cm.
comprising a trefoil oinochoe with low foot-ring, glazed underside, ribbed body, plain molding at the juncture between body and neck, and cylindrical handle, a squat lekythos with reserved underside, gadrooned body, and angular convex handle, a small mug or oinochoe form 8B with low foot-ring, glazed underside, gadrooned body, notched collar between the shoulder and neck, and double handle, an Attic mug or oinochoe form 8B with black dotted dircle on the partly reserved underside, ribbed body with punched concentric circles at the bottom of each flute, notched collar between shoulder and neck, and double handle, a cluster of grapes and two palmettes stamped in the handle zone, and an Apulian lekythos with ribbed body, double handle, and flaring mouth.

Provenance

Moustaki Collection, then Charles Ede Ltd., London, for the third and fifth (a strip of paper inside the third inscribed in ink in a 19th Century hand “From Eretria April 24 1907”)
German private collection, then Howard Nowes, New York, for the first and second

Literature

Cf. Ashmolean Museum, Beazley Gifts, no. 384, for the fourth.