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PARTIALLY GILDED SILVER CUP
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66
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PARTIALLY GILDED SILVER CUP
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
PARTIALLY GILDED SILVER CUP
Hellenistic art, 4th–3rd century BC
A goblet with a truncated conical body and an everted rim, resting on a hemispherical, fluted base. The body is decorated with an incised and gilded frieze depicting a scroll of acanthus and ivy leaves.
Minor restoration.
Height: 10.2 cm
Weight: 80 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. MMoCA310)
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. 134
J. Boardman, “Greek Art” in M. Merrony (ed.), *Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France*, 2011, p. 67, fig. 33
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 beaker,
4th–3rd century BC
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