CIRCA MID-7TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN EAST GREEK GOLD SHEET PYXIS
CIRCA MID-7TH CENTURY B.C.
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974), Cornwall; thence by descent.
The Property of a Gentleman; Antiquities, Christie's, London, 15 May 2002, lot 374.
Swiss private collection, acquired from the above.
with Bader Kunsthandel, Lucerne, 2002.
Swiss private collection.
with Jean-David Cahn, Basel, 2008 (Tiere und Mischwesen, vol. VII, no. 41).
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2009.

Literature

J. Boardman, "Greek Art," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 70, fig. 54.

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA358).

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

This precious container is built in two parts, each sheet gold section decorated in repoussé with an encircling frieze of Orientalizing animals including a bull, lion, goat and antelope, rosettes in the field. The lower bowl section is adorned with a band of Greek key pattern above and a tongued frieze around the base.

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