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BYZANTINE LIMESTONE MORTAR WITH FACES AND LATER DEDICATION
CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
8 5/8 in. (11.15 kg, 22 cm wide).
CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
8 5/8 in. (11.15 kg, 22 cm wide).
Drum-shaped body with narrow base, two vertical flanges running from the rim and between them two D-shaped male masks with low discoid caps; later inscribed: '1812 [ΕΤ]ΟΥ IΟΥ[ΛIΟΥ] 27 ІωÁΝΙΣ ΚΟΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΠΕΤΡΙΚΙ' (July the 27, year 1812 of Iohannes Konstantinos Petrikos). [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
