Details
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Parke-Bernet, New York, 24 January 1969, lot 33.
Lester Wolfe (1897-1983), New York; thence by descent.
The Collection of the Late Lester Wolfe; Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 1-2 March 1984, lot 25.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 15 June 1988, lot 46.
London art market.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 6 July 1994, lot 447.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 13 October 2008, lot 179.
Literature
M. Eiland, "Materials and Manufacture," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 163, fig. 1.
"Les collections," Egypte Ancienne, May-July 2013, p. 67.
L. Marotta, "The Medici of Mougins," Force One Magazine, 2017, p. 38.
Exhibited
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA32).
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Decorated in dark brown and orange over a cream slip, wearing multiple bead interlinked necklaces. Along the base and sides run a deep frieze of trailing tendrils, plants and birds.

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