Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 48*
An East Greek pottery ibex-headed rhyton
6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,287.50 inc. premium
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Anna Marston
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An East Greek pottery ibex-headed rhyton
Probably Phrygian, circa 8th-5th Century B.C.
Of conical form, terminating in the forequarters of a recumbent ibex with long, crescentic horns, a pouring hole between the bent forelegs, the white slip with red and brown painted decoration detailing the animal, the vessel decorated with a band of repeat trefoil leaf pattern and scrolling vines below the rim, the lower register decorated with stylised palm trees, 21cm high, mouth 12cm diam.
Probably Phrygian, circa 8th-5th Century B.C.
Of conical form, terminating in the forequarters of a recumbent ibex with long, crescentic horns, a pouring hole between the bent forelegs, the white slip with red and brown painted decoration detailing the animal, the vessel decorated with a band of repeat trefoil leaf pattern and scrolling vines below the rim, the lower register decorated with stylised palm trees, 21cm high, mouth 12cm diam.
Footnotes
Provenance:
with Galerie Arete, Zurich.
Private collection, Geneva, acquired from the above 28 May 1982.
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in 2006.
Cf. a cult vessel in the form of a bull's head in the Çorum Archaeological Museum, Turkey, with similar distinctive white slip and red and brown painted decoration.