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THBPublished Greek Silver Cup - Highly Decorated - 146.8 g
Lot 37a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional art from around the world - Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Viking, Russian, Near Eastern; Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, India; Fine Art from the 17th century to present. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Ancient Greece, Late Classical or Hellenistic, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. An elaborately decorated, high-grade silver mastoid cup (96% silver) of an ideal size to fit into the palm of the drinker's hand. The body is extensively decorated in repousse with rays surrounding a central flower motif adorning the lower body of the base, a narrow register with abstract foliage motifs above, and stylized avian forms upon the shoulder - in a manner that is nearly identical to an example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1972.118.159 - see link below) which their curatorial team described as being similar to several cups found in northern Greece. Size: 3.625" in diameter x 2.625" H (9.2 cm x 6.7 cm)
Exhibited and published in catalogue for "Dressed to Kill in Love and War: Splendor in the Ancient World" (February 1 - March 31, 2019 - Academy Museum, Easton, Maryland, USA, p. 9, fig. 17, discussion on p. 7. According to curator Sarah E. Cox, "The silver vessels in the exhibition were probably all used in domestic settings, so the Greek phiale, for example, was intended for libations, and a nearly contemporaneous cup (no. 17 - this example), conveniently sized to fit the palm of one's hand, for drinking."
See a very similar example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number 1972.118.159 - Gallery 158) - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255470
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-private German collection, acquired in the 1980s
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#146250Expected indentations commensurate with age. Minor softening to some of the decorative motifs, but most of the decorative program is vivid. Nice age patina.Condition
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