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PARTIALLY GILDED SILVER JUG
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PARTIALLY GILDED SILVER JUG
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
PARTIALLY GILDED SILVER JUG
Hellenistic art, 4th–3rd century BC
A jug with a rounded body and an everted rim, featuring a flat handle attached to the body, which is engraved with gadroons.
Traces of gilding.
Height: 8.9 cm
Weight: 60 g
Provenance: Former private collection, Hanover, Germany, assembled according to family tradition in the early 20th century
Christie’s New York, 11 December 2003: lot 166 (ill.) (part of a lot)
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2009
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA309)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April – 26 October 2025
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, New York, 11 December 2003, lot 166 (part of a lot)
J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2005, vol. XVI, no. 133
J. Boardman, “Greek Art” in M. Merrony (ed.), *Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France*, 2011, p. 67, fig. 36
A. Schubert, ‘Das Erbe Caesars Und Das Neue Rom’ in Historisches Museum Der Pfalz Speyer (ed.), Caesar & Kleopatra, 2025, pp. 218–219
A Hellenistic parcel-gilt silver jug,
4th–3rd century BC
See original version (French)
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