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Provenance:
Fernand Adda (1890-1965) collection, Cairo, Alexandria and Paris; and thence by descent to his daughter Ghania Adda-Cohen.
Mrs Petra Scharrelmann collection, Bremen.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 May 2013, lot 272.
with Jean-David Cahn, Basel.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above.
The fragment preserves a frieze of grazing wild goats below a band of hanging lotus flowers and buds, typifying the Wild Goat style of arranging animals in procession, and using distinctive Orientalising flora. Cf. a South Ionian oinochoe in Richmond, VA, with very similar execution of grazing goats and lotus flowers (acc. no. 82.203; in R.M. Cook and P. Dupont, East Greek Pottery, London, 1998, p. 37, fig. 8.6). Interestingly, this fragment appears to be from a vessel lid, due to the ridge on the undecorated underside; lidded vessels from this period are exceedingly rare.