Lot 425
CORINTHIAN GEOMETRIC PATTERN SQUAT OINOCHOE
LATE 6TH BCE
Auction: Day Two: 19 May 2022 | From 11:00
Description
together with a red figure pyxis, a Roman oil lamp (broken), a head of a Tarentine lady of fashion, a terracotta fragment with the head of a goddess and an ancient Greek terracotta bird
Dimensions
oinochoe 12cm wide, 11.5cm high
Provenance
Provenance: The Estate of the late J. E. Adam
The labels with these items were handwritten by the collector himself, 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.