Bidspirit auction | South Italian Blackware Kantharos with

South Italian Blackware Kantharos with Ivy Branch - 5th-4th century B.C. The high-handled drinking cup with carinated lower body, discoid feet and vines painted to the equator. Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1993.197, for a similar 5th century Boeotian example. 472 grams, 23.3 cm high (9 1/8 in.). Acquired in Europe before 1994. (For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price.)