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RED-FIGURE ALABASTRON
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RED-FIGURE ALABASTRON
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Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
RED-FIGURE ALABASTRON
Attributed to the Paidikos Alabaster Group, Greek art, Attic, early 5th century BC.
An alabastron whose body is decorated with a young man offering a flower to a young woman standing before him. Both figures are draped in a himation. On the rim, an inscription in Greek characters with no known meaning.
Restored.
Height: 16 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Dr Kurt Deppert, Frankfurt, early 1970s
Private German collection
Christie’s, London, 7 October 2010: lot 120 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA577)
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, London, 7 October 2010, lot 120
J. Boardman, ‘Greek Art’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 60, fig. 8 (a–b)
An Attic red-figure alabastron,
Attributed to the group of the Paidikos Alabastra, early 5th century BC.
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