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Red-figure cup fragment: Palmette, Encircled Lotus Bud
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Side A: palmette, encircled lotus bud. Full relief contours; preliminary sketch. Rim reserved inside and out; cf. Skythes.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Dr. J. Robert Guy Oxford England (?-1994) sold; to Peter Sharrar New York (1994-1995) sold: to Harvard University Art Museums.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Jonathan H. Kagan Mr. and Mrs. Evangelos Karvounis Ian M. Watson McLaughlin Nicholas S. Zoullas and the Florence Gould Foundation and the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Director's Discretionary and Marian H. Phinney Funds
Title: Red-figure cup fragment: Palmette, Encircled Lotus Bud
Description:
Side A: palmette, encircled lotus bud.
Full relief contours; preliminary sketch.
Rim reserved inside and out; cf.
Skythes.
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