Sold for $8,750

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Lot Description

An Attic White-Ground Lekythos

Attributed to the Painter of Athens 1826, Circa 460-450 B.C.

Height 10 inches.

Provenance:
Dean Collection, London, acquired in 1975.
Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Auktion 239, 16 June 2016, Lot 206.

Condition Report

Numerous repaired fractures, one with a largely filled section (on the back of the lekythos, not the front with the figures). Other fractures with minor fill-in and scattered overpainting. The handle largely repaired, with fill-in. The Dean Collection 1975 provenance is based on Gorny & Mosch's catalogue description; we do not have a copy of any documents related to the 1975 acquisition.

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