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BLACK BUCCHERO CHALICE
See original version (French)
76
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BLACK BUCCHERO CHALICE
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
BLACK BUCCHERO CHALICE
Etruscan art, 6th century BC
A cup on a fluted pedestal with a carinated bowl decorated with a frieze of sphinxes, griffins, panthers and stags in relief.
Restored.
Height: 15 cm
Provenance: Former Tollmann Collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1960s–1970s
Gorny & Mosch, Auction 132, Munich, 16 June 2004: lot 68 (ill.)
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Collection of Dr P. L., Little Rock, Arkansas, 2006
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2008
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2008
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA107)
Bibliography: Gorny & Mosch, Auction 132, Munich, 16 June 2004, lot 68
J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2006, vol. XVII, p. 62, fig. 115
J. Spier, ‘Roman Bronzes’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 136, fig. 16
An Etruscan bucchero nero chalice,
6th century BC
See original version (French)
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