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LOT 2447
Chinese Song Glazed Comb Decorated Bowl
SONG DYNASTY, 960-1279 A.D.
7 in. (297 grams, 17.7 cm wide).
A pale blue-green glazed ceramic bowl with everted rim and shallow foot, decorative lines to the inner face minor chips to the rim. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private family collection of Ersula Barter-Hemmerich, the longest serving member of staff working at the United Nations, her private collection formed in the 1950s and 1960s; thence by descent to her grandson.
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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