86 - RED-FIGURE SKYPHOS WITH AN OWL

RED-FIGURE SKYPHOS WITH AN OWL Greek art, Magna Graecia, 4th century B.C. A black-glazed terracotta skyphos with horizontal handles, each side of which is decorated with the Athenian owl flanked by two olive branches. Cracked, otherwise intact. Dimensions: 7.3 x 20.3 cm Provenance: English collection, acquired on the London art market in the late 1990s Christie’s, London, October 7, 2010: lot 237 (ill.) Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA582) Animal, Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, February 25, 2016 — April 30, 2016 Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, London, October 7, 2010, lot 237 J. Boardman, “Greek Art” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 59, fig. 5 M. Merrony, Mougins Museum of Classical Art. The Levett Family Collection, 2012, p. 37 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 56 and 92 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 48, fig. 43, and p. 82 A Greek red-figured skyphos with an owl, Magna Graecia, 4th century B.C.