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LOT 0623
Greek Black-Ware Echinus Bowl
ATTIC, LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
7 in. (311 grams, 18 cm wide).
Broad, shallow body with low rounded wall and ledge rim, in light orange-brown fine clay with black gloss all over; wide ring foot, seven stamped palmettes clustered around centre. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFormerly acquired in the late 1950s-1960s.
From the family collection of a London, UK, collector.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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