A miniature Cypriot alabaster lekythos Hellenistic Period, circa 4th-3rd Century B.C. With a ribbed rim and flaring foot, the handle with notched decoration, the shoulder incised with two encircling linear bands, 9cm high; and a Roman marble pestle, circa 1st Century A.D., in the form of a bent finger, 7cm x 4.5cm (2) Fußnoten Provenance: Alabaster flask: Dr H. A. Fawcett (1891-1982) collection, UK. Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the early 1970s at Sotheby's, London. There is a similarly decorated miniature Hellenistic alabaster amphora with ribbed lip and stepped foot from the Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 74.51.5135.
A miniature Cypriot alabaster lekythos Hellenistic Period, circa 4th-3rd Century B.C. With a ribbed rim and flaring foot, the handle with notched decoration, the shoulder incised with two encircling linear bands, 9cm high; and a Roman marble pestle, circa 1st Century A.D., in the form of a bent finger, 7cm x 4.5cm (2) Fußnoten Provenance: Alabaster flask: Dr H. A. Fawcett (1891-1982) collection, UK. Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the early 1970s at Sotheby's, London. There is a similarly decorated miniature Hellenistic alabaster amphora with ribbed lip and stepped foot from the Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 74.51.5135.
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