Lot 546
ATTIC BLACK FIGURAL STEMMED KYLIX
CIRCA 500 BCE
Auction: Day Two: 17 November 2022 | From 10:00
Description
painted front and back with bull fighting scenes
Dimensions
18.5cm wide, 8cm high
Provenance
Provenance: The Estate of the late J. E. Adam
Footnote
Note: Collected by Charles Richard Fox (1796-1873). He was the son of Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron of Holland, and Lady Elizabeth Webster, herself a fascinating character, well-known as an intellectual.
Fox was an acclaimed numismatist, collecting vast amounts of Greek coins and writing several books about them. His travels, both with the army and privately later in life, led him across Europe and Asia Minor, and gave him a chance to acquire coins and antiquities from an array of places.
The coin collection was bought by the Royal Museum of Berlin after his death, where they are still on view today.
The antiquities have remained in the family until now, they were passed down from Charles Richard Fox to his nephew Charles Frederick Fox Adam, to his son (F E F Adam) who had no children and left his possessions to Janet Adam’s father.