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LOT 0654
Corinthian Terracotta Black-Figure Alabastron
6TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/4 in. (38.9 grams, 83 mm).
With broad mouth and pierced-lug handle below; the body decorated with a figure of a crouching lion in profile and a sphinx; stylised flowers of varying sizes in the field, dashes to the neck and upper face of the mouth, dots around the rim, rosette to base.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Tokyo, Japan, since the 1980s.
Private European collection, acquired in 2010.
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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