Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, Volume XXVI - 2015

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77 ATTIC RED-FIGURE OWL LEKYTHOS. 5th Century BC. H. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York. Scarce. 78 CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE AMPHORA WITH OWL with twisted handles. On either side of the neck an owl between laurel branches. 4th Century BC. H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Christie’s, New York, December 2000. 79 CAMPANIAN BLACK-FIGURE AMPHORA WITH OWLS Three front-facing owls on both sides; laurel leaves on neck; added white details. 4th Century BC. H. 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm) Rare. Ex British private collection; Fragments of Time, Fall 2008 catalog; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in November 2008. 80 APULIAN XENON GROUP SESSILE KANTHAROS WITH OWL between curling tendrils. Reverse with three registers of applied decoration: palmettes, vertical squiggles, laurel branch. Ca. 350 BC. H. 4 in.(10.2 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in Switzerland in 1989.

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