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67 - SILVER SKYPHOS
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SILVER SKYPHOS Hellenistic art, 1st century B.C. Calyx-shaped cup on a pedestal, flanked by two ring-shaped handles with thumb rests. Restored. Height: 12.3 cm Weight: 240 g Provenance: Former French private collection Boisgirard & Associés, Paris, June 16 and 17, 2005: lot 99 (ill.) Royal-Athena Galleries, New York Christian Levett Collection, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, acquired in 2009 Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA306) The Banquet: From Marseille to Rome, Pleasure and Power Games, Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France, December 3, 2016–June 17, 2017 We Didn’t Invent a Thing! Products, Trade, and Gastronomy in Roman Antiquity, Marseille History Museum, Marseille, France, August 15–November 24, 2019 Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, April 13–October 26, 2025 Bibliography: Boisgirard & Associés, Arts of the East, June 16–17, 2005, lot 99 J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2006, vol. XVII, p. 67, no. 134 J. Boardman, “Greek Art” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 67, fig. 32 D. Djaoui (ed.), “The Luxury of the Triclinium,” *On n’a rien inventé*, Marseille History Museum, France, 2019, p. 40 A Hellenistic silver skyphos, 1st century B.C.
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