**First Time At Auction**

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 5th to early 4th century BCE. A gorgeous, black-glazed oinochoe featuring an intricately painted shoulder of black-on-red horizontal registers of ray, meander, and ivy leaf motifs. Sitting upon a ring-shaped foot, the elegant vessel presents an apple-form body with a rounded shoulder and a narrow neck that flares out to a trefoil spout. A ribbon-form handle gracefully arches up from the rim connecting it to the shoulder of the vessel. A lovely example, with particularly glossy, almost reflective finish, created to store precious liquids like oil or wine. Size: 7.9" H (20.1 cm)

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Provenance: private West Hollywood, California, USA collection; ex-Dr. Manuel Gottlieband Doris Gottlieb Brickner collection, thence by descent; ex-Galerie La Reine Margot, Paris, France, between 1969 - 1971

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#177598

Small area of restoration to the left of the bottom of the handle, small nicks to the lip, well conserved glossy surface, overall in good condition.