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LOT 0273
Bactrian Chlorite Vessel with Lions
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 in. (273 grams, 85 mm).
With frieze of crouching lions in profile, each with sockets to the flanks to accept coloured inserts (absent); chipped rim repaired.
Provenance
with Surena Gallery, 1999.
Private collection, Europe.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate dated 20th April 2004.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12405-226712.
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. Aruz, J. ed., Art Of The First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p.326, for similar.
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