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LOT 0087
Greek Red Figure Dish with Lady of Fashion
SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 380-350 B.C.
6 1/2 in. (187 grams, 16.5 cm wide).
With pedestal foot, decorated with radiating strokes to the rim, band of leaf ornament surrounding the central profile of a lady of fashion facing left, her hair dressed in a ribboned sakkos with stephane; earrings and necklace in white and ochre.
Provenance
Acquired by the vendor's father in the 1950s or before; thence by descent 2003.
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