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BLACK-FIGURE SIANA CUP
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BLACK-FIGURE SIANA CUP
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
BLACK-FIGURE SIANA CUP
Greek art, Attic, second half of the 6th century BC.
A black-glazed terracotta cup with handles, decorated on its central panel with a figure of a cockerel and a lotus flower framed by palmettes. On the exterior, an animal frieze depicting, on side A, a bird with outstretched wings surrounded by two panthers and two does, and on side B, a pair of panthers and does.
Restored.
Height: 12.4 cm
Diameter: 23.6 cm
Provenance: Herbert A. Cahn Collection, Basel
Felix Keller Collection, Zurich
Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, 19 September 2008: lot 275 (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. MMoCA58)
Bibliography: Cahn Auktionen AG, Auction 3, Basel, 19 September 2008, lot 275
J. Boardman, ‘Greek Art’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 61, fig. 12
An Attic black-figured Siana cup,
Second half of the 6th century BC.
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