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LOT 0580
Greek Miniature Bronze Beaked Jug
MACEDONIA, 7TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (14 grams, 26 mm).
With integral strap handle and disc foot, carination to the equator, broad pouring lip. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Herbert A. Cahn, Basel, 1990s.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00072882.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 17.194.224 and 199407, for a similar type.
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Opening Bid: £1,000
Plano-convex seal with incuse boar image; Bivar notes in his description: 'Boar, charging to the left. The convexity of the bezel surface is rather untypical. The stone may have been resurfaced. Probably 5th to 4th century B.C.'; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 7.09 grams, 25.3 mm
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Hollow-formed mask with gaping mouth and protruding tongue, ropework collar, flared opening to rear. 151 grams, 73 mm
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