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Lot 60*

An Attic black-figure Little Master lip-cup

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £10,200 inc. premium

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An Attic black-figure Little Master lip-cup
Circa mid 6th Century B.C.
Decorated with a fine band of black around the lip and middle of the bowl, the lower section of the bowl, stemmed foot and handles black-glazed, the interior with central dot and circle, circumscribed with one thick and numerous slender linear bands, 8.5cm high, 17cm incl. handles

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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.

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