Two Canosan pottery vases
3rd century BC; alt. cm 46 e 42; A pair of funerary vases in the form of two female heads wearing diadems decorated with disc-shaped additions and with two long leaves placed at the sides of the neck: on top of the heads are small female statuettes wrapped in the chiton and himation. Originally the two vases were completed by long ribbon handles extending vertically from the back of the statuettes to the back of the heads.
Restored.
PROVENANCE:
English private collection, purchased in 2000s from Herakles Numismatik und Antiquitäten GmbH (München); previously acquired on the European art market in the 1970s.
Estimate: GBP: 2.000-2.500
Price realized | 1'100 GBP |
Starting price | 900 GBP |