ANCIENT GREEK BOEOTIAN BLACK-FIGURE KANTHAROS
GREECE, MID-6TH CENTURY B.C.
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Auction: 13 March 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
painted terracotta, with dual looping handles, decorated in black-figure technique with added red details, the image area on the body depicting a panther facing the viewer with raised tail and muscular body, flanked by two grazing deer
Dimensions
16.7 cm high
Provenance
Sotheby's London,12th June 1967, lot 129
Private collection, London, United Kingdom acquired from the above and bearing original label
Sotheby's London, 8 December 1994, lot 196
Private collection, United Kingdom, acquired from the above