Rare Greek vases expected to sell for pounds 1m
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Your support makes all the difference.A COLLECTION of ancient Greek vases is expected to raise more than pounds 1m at Sotheby's in London next month.
The 64 vases from the Hirschmann Collection, to be sold on 9 December, are the most significant works of their kind to be offered for more than 10 years. Two extremely rare sixth-century Caeretan vases are expected to sell for about pounds 200,000. The other works include, (left) an Etruscan work from about 520BC depicting a ring dance of male revellers, (estimate pounds 10,000-pounds 15,000); (above) an Attic vase with an open-mouthed satyr (pounds 18,000-pounds 20,000) and (right) an Attic white-ground lekythos, a vase used in funeral rites, showing the fallen warrior's family (pounds 50,000-pounds 60,000).
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