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RED-FIGURE SKYPHOS WITH AN OWL
See original version (French)
86
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RED-FIGURE SKYPHOS WITH AN OWL
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
RED-FIGURE SKYPHOS WITH AN OWL
Greek art, Magna Graecia, 4th century BC.
A black-glazed terracotta skyphos with horizontal handles, each side of which is decorated with the Athenian owl flanked by two olive branches.
Cracked, otherwise intact.
Dimensions: 7.3 x 20.3 cm
Provenance: English collection, acquired on the London art market in the late 1990s
Christie’s, London, 7 October 2010: lot 237 (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. MMoCA582)
Animal, Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, 25 February 2016 – 30 April 2016
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, London, 7 October 2010, lot 237
J. Boardman, ‘Greek Art’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 59, fig. 5
M. Merrony, Mougins Museum of Classical Art. The Levett Family Collection, 2012, p. 37
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 56 and 92
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 48, fig. 43 and p. 82
A Greek red-figured skyphos depicting an owl,
Magna Graecia, 4th century BC.
See original version (French)
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