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LOT 0559
Greek Blackware Dish
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
6 1/8 in. (292 grams, 15.5 cm).
With rounded underside and carinated sidewall, flared rim with rolled edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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