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LOT 1085

Achaemenid Bronze Phiale with Boss

500-400 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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LOT 1085

Achaemenid Bronze Phiale with Boss

Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)

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