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Three Antiquities, 14th/4th Century B.C.
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Three Antiquities
- 15, 23 1/2 , and 9 in. 38.1, 59.6, and 22.9 cm.
comprising a Mycenaean pottery spouted jar of ovoid form with stirrup handle, the body decorated in red with a continuous undulating band, a Cypriot pottery amphora with pyriform body decorated with encircling bands, concentric circles on the neck, and an Etruscan terracotta votive head of a boar with indented nostrils, erect ears, and prominent crest, a circular vent-hole at the back.
Provenance
Christie's, London, July 10th-11th, 1974, no. 305, illus., for the first
acquired in Europe or Japan in 1974, for the second
Sotheby's, London, July 9th, 1974, no. 146, illus., for the third