
Francesca Hickin
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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14-15 December 1981, lot 252.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Cf. an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 03.24.32; the present lot is a finer example of this type. The Little Masters specialised in a delicate, miniature style of vase-painting, and were active in Athens in the first half of the 6th Century B.C. The lip-cup was one of their favoured shapes.