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LOT 0203
Achaemenid Bronze Phiale with Boss
7TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
6 1/2 in. (298 grams, 16.5 cm).
Broad lotiform bowl with everted and turned rim, domed mesomphalos.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Mahboubian, Art of Ancient Iran: Copper and Bronze, London, 1997, no.321, p.246.
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LOT 0203
Achaemenid Bronze Phiale with Boss
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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