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LOT 0203

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GBP (£) 600 - 800
EUR (€) 720 - 950
USD ($) 780 - 1,030

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£300 (EUR 358; USD 388) (‡+bp*)

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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.

CONDITION
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