Ancient Apulian Red Figured Owl Cup Skyphos circa
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Ancient Apulian Red Figured Owl Cup Skyphos circa 340-320 BC. Size 5 7/8 inches across the handle span. x 2 3/4 inches high. ancient Apulian colonies in South Italy, 4th Century BC. Black-glazed pottery wine skyphos decorated to either side with a figure of an owl between two olive sprigs. Cups such as this were made in Apulia to commemorate Athens, the owl(s) symbolising Athena, the olive sprigs symbolising Greece. Provenance: Private California Collection acquired 1980's.
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minor chips at the rim otherwise intact.
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Ancient Apulian Red Figured Owl Cup Skyphos circa
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