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LOT 1864
Bactrian Style Dish Fragment with Hellenistic Portraits
20TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 in. (106 grams, 15.5 cm).
Comprising a portion of the silver-coloured metal rim; rim with vine tendrils, leaves and bunches of grapes modelled in high-relief and extending into the bowl; base with a ring of right-facing male profile busts each within a pelletted hoop, and border of larger pellets below; underside abraded. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex S.M. London collection, UK, 1970-1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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