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SILVER SKYPHOS
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67
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SILVER SKYPHOS
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
SILVER SKYPHOS
Hellenistic art, 1st century BC
Calyx-shaped cup on a pedestal, flanked by two ring-shaped handles with thumb rests.
Restored.
Height: 12.3 cm
Weight: 240 g
Provenance: Former French private collection
Boisgirard & Associés, Paris, 16 and 17 June 2005: lot 99 (ill.)
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Christian Levett Collection, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, acquired in 2009
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA306)
The Banquet: From Marseille to Rome, Pleasure and Power Games, Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France, 3 December 2016–17 June 2017
We Didn’t Invent Anything! Products, Trade and Gastronomy in Roman Antiquity, Marseille History Museum, Marseille, France, 15 August–24 November 2019
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April – 26 October 2025
Bibliography: Boisgirard & Associés, Arts d’Orient, 16 and 17 June 2005, lot 99
J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2006, vol. XVII, p. 67, no. 134
J. Boardman, “Greek Art” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 67, fig. 32
D. Djaoui (ed.), “The Luxury of the Triclinium”, *On n’a rien inventé*, Marseille History Museum, France, 2019, p. 40
A Hellenistic silver skyphos,
1st century BC
See original version (French)
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