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LOT 0218
Byzantine Green Glazed Sgraffito Footed Bowl
13TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/8 in. (372 grams, 13 cm).
Carinated in profile with narrow flared base, green-glazed upper body; to the inner face a central roundel with zigzag fill and a zigzag band above the gallery, to the outer face horizontal zigzag band to the shoulder; old Christie's label with '144/2 5540'.
ProvenanceEx Charles Gillot (1853-1903).
with Christie's, Paris, 2008.
European private collection.
Cf. similar item in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession no.12.45.2.
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