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LOT 1040

Achaemenid Serpentine Dish

6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

4 1/4 in. (222 grams, 10.8 cm).

With broad bowl and slightly chamfered rim, basal ring.

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.

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LOT 1040

Achaemenid Serpentine Dish

Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)

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