Phoenician Alabastron with Handles. 6th-5th century B.C. Comprising a slender alabaster piriform body and two lateral lug handles, conical neck with broad everted rim. Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no.74.51.5120, for similar; cf. also Bissing, F.W., Studien zur ältesten Kultur Italiens. IV. Alabastra. Studi Etruschi 13, pp.131-78, pls.XII-XIII, for similar examples. 650 grams, 19.7 cm high (7 3/4 in.). (For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price.)

Giusfredi collection, 1980s. Swiss private collection, acquired May 1999. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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