CANOSAN POTTERY LEKYTHOS FIGURE
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Ca. 300 BC.
A pottery figure depicting a woman standing in contrapposto and wearing a tightly-wrapped himation over a long chiton. The drapery folds accentuate her curvaceous body; a floral diadem in her hair and blue disc earrings. A high arching, fragment of a handle on her shoulders would have connected to the pottery lekythos below. At the bottom near her feet is decorated with blooming flowers with sizeable petals on each side. This would have conjoined to the sakkos of the female portrait on the lekythos.
Size: 240mm x 155mm; Weight: 1.2 kg
Provenance: Private London collection, B.A.; formerly in pre-2000 European collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
A pottery figure depicting a woman standing in contrapposto and wearing a tightly-wrapped himation over a long chiton. The drapery folds accentuate her curvaceous body; a floral diadem in her hair and blue disc earrings. A high arching, fragment of a handle on her shoulders would have connected to the pottery lekythos below. At the bottom near her feet is decorated with blooming flowers with sizeable petals on each side. This would have conjoined to the sakkos of the female portrait on the lekythos.
Size: 240mm x 155mm; Weight: 1.2 kg
Provenance: Private London collection, B.A.; formerly in pre-2000 European collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
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CANOSAN POTTERY LEKYTHOS FIGURE
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