A Mycenaean Pottery Rhyton, Late Helladic, 14th Century B.C.

Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 USD

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Description

A Mycenaean Pottery Rhyton
Height 11 1/2 in. 29.2 cm.

of slender conical from with everted rounded rim and high ring handle, the body decorated in red over a cream slip with encircling lines and bands, the neck and rim with a row of dots , and the handle with a lattice pattern.

Provenance

Col. Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974)
private collection (Christie's, London, May 14th, 2002, no. 375, illus.)

Catalogue Note

For related examples see Egypt's Golden Age, no. 162, K. Demakopoulou, ed., The Mycenaean World, Athens, 1988, p. 124, no. 63, and p, 272, no. 309, and J.P. O'Neill, ed., Greek Art of the Aegean Islands, New York, 1979, p. 95, no. 49, and p. 100, no. 53. Also see P.A. Mountjoy, Regional Mycenaean Decorated Pottery, Rahden, 1999, vol. I, p. 409, p. 409, fig. 33, and p. 382, fig. 45.