COLLECTION OF APULIAN XENON WARE VESSELS. Ca. 350 - 300 BC. …

Lot no. 770

Estimate: £450 - £900

Sale date : 11/30/2025 at 2:00 PM

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Archaeology and Antiquities

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COLLECTION OF APULIAN XENON WARE VESSELS. Ca. 350 - 300 BC. A collection of three Xenon ware vessels, including, from left to right: a stemmed kantharos with high rounded handles, a short neck and a swollen ovoid body with waterfowl in added red on the black glaze; a trefoil-lipped oinochoe with concave neck, piriform body and low annular foot, decorated with a swan in added red; and a small kantharos with opposed loop handles and a rounded body on a ring foot, the shoulder with a frieze of running meander on one face and a running hare on the reverse. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 1972.11.5; 06.1021.218. Size: 60-80mm x 50-70mm; Weight: 140g Private London collection; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; originally in the collection of R Verbruggen, Brussels 1990’s.

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