Lot no. 738
STUNNING PAIR OF GREEK SKYPHOI. Ca. 500 - 300 BC A pair of red-figure terracotta skyphoi, each with a deep cup on a low foot and a pair of horizontal handles set beneath the rim, including, from left to right: a skyphos decorated with a frieze of upright palmettes linked by tendrils between horizontal bands; and a skyphos decorated with a large female head in profile on each face, the hair bound with a sakkos and framed by scrolling tendrils and palmettes, with a wave band below the lip. Size: 105-130mm x 60-75mm; Weight: 145g. Private London collection; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; originally in the collection of L Evrard, Liege 1980’s. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 41.162.125, X.21.6.
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