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A Terracotta Wine Amphora, ca. 100 BCE

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Bidding on A Terracotta Wine Amphora, ca. 100 BCE

Sold

Hammer price

$90,000
11 bids5 biddersReserve met
Closed—

This lot has been sold.

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A buyer’s premium of 10% applies to the hammer price. At $90,000 that is $9,000, for a total of $99,000 excluding shipping and any applicable tax.

Consigned by

Rafael Ortiz-Bennett

@ortizbennett

4.7 from 96 sales

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Catalogue note

Terracotta. H. 40 1/2 in. (102.9 cm). Dated ca. 100 BCE in the collection record.

No independent ownership history accompanies this lot. What The Metropolitan Museum of Art records of its own acquisition is given under Provenance below, and nothing beyond it is asserted.

Offered under our antiquities terms. The description follows the holding institution's published record, and responsibility for any export or import licence rests with the buyer. Catalogue data for this lot is drawn from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's open-access collections record (CC0 1.0).

Provenance

Not independently established for this sale. The Metropolitan Museum of Art records its own acquisition as: Gift of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1953.

Condition

Restoration required

Sold as found. Conservation work is required.

Condition reports are the house’s opinion, offered in good faith. Lots are sold as viewed; the absence of a remark does not imply the absence of a fault.

Bidding history11 bids from 5 bidders

  1. A••• S.Leading

    Bid

    $90,000

  2. M••• C.

    Automatic bid

    $87,500

  3. M••• C.

    Bid

    $82,500

  4. N••• K.

    Automatic bid

    $80,000

  5. N••• K.

    Bid

    $77,500

  6. Y••• D.

    Automatic bid

    $75,000

  7. Y••• D.

    Bid

    $72,500

  8. G••• L.

    Automatic bid

    $70,000

  9. G••• L.

    Bid

    $67,500

  10. A••• S.

    Automatic bid

    $65,000

  11. A••• S.

    Bid

    $62,000

Bidders are shown by initial, as they would be by paddle in the room. Bids marked “automatic” were placed by the house on a bidder’s behalf, against a maximum only they can see.

Terms of sale

Buyer's premium
10% of the hammer price, added to your invoice.
Reserve
This lot carries a confidential reserve. It will not sell below it.
Anti-snipe
A bid in the closing moments extends the clock so the room can answer.
Settlement
Funds are held on deposit while you lead, and released the moment you are outbid.

Catalogue record

This lot describes a real object held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose collection data is published for open access. The object is not for sale; it stands in here so the saleroom can be demonstrated against genuine catalogue records rather than invented ones.

View the museum recordLicence: CC0 1.0