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LOT 0539
Greek Campanian Black Terracotta Bowl
4TH CENTURY B.C.
5 5/8 in. (223 grams, 14.2 cm).
A terracotta bowl or dish with broad inverted rim, squat convex body and carinated foot, covered in a black glaze and displaying a stylised radiating palmette leaf design to the interior base.
Provenance
Acquired early 1990s.
Ex private American collection; thence by descent.
Private Swiss collection since 1998.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers X.21.38 and 17.194.1888, for very similar examples.
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