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LOT 2020
Corinthian Style Aryballos with Human-Headed Bird
20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
3 3/4 in. (139 grams total, 95 mm high including stand).
Bulbous-bodied with a short neck, deep rim and strap handle; polychrome roundels to the mouth, spots to the rim and shoulder, black figure harpy with the head of a mature man and body of a bird, wheel motif to the base; accompanied by a display stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Norfolk, UK, collection.
Ex Moore Antiquities, West Sussex, UK, in the 1990s.
Accompanied by an old Moore Antiquities cataloguing display card with reference no.1915.
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