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LOT 1030
Bactrian Stone Bowl with Birds
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/8 in. (490 grams, 13 cm).
Drum-shaped with stepped flared rim, sidewall with frieze of stylised birds, each with wings spread, legs extended and head turned to the right; rows of shallow sockets to accept a coloured fill (now absent).
Provenance
Acquired from a gallery in France, held in the UK since 1982, thence by descent.
Private collection, London.
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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