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LOT 0555
Greek Apulian Red-Figure Pottery Lekanis
APULIAN SOUTH ITALY, 4TH CENTURY B.C.
3 5/8 - 5 1/2 in. (182 grams total, 9.3-14.2 cm wide).
With black-glazed pale tan body and original matching lid decorated with two heads of ladies of fashion, palmettes between, radial lines on the knob handle and a waveband around the rim. [2]
ProvenanceOld Belgian private collection, thence André Munter Archéologie, Brussels, Belgium.
Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman.
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