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LOT 0500
Greek Terracotta Deep Glazed Bowl
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
8 1/2 in. (335 grams, 21.5 cm wide).
Broad conical vessel on a small flat base with interior and exterior glazed black; the inner face decorated with incised, reserved concentric circles and a partially-preserved rosette with a dotted frieze in added white; vertical fissure in the wall, two small fragments reattached to the rim; partially misfired, due to the way the vessels were stacked in the oven; supplied with a display stand.
ProvenanceProperty of a private collector.
with Bonhams, London, 16 May 2002, no.551.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00075157.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Sparkes B.A., Talcott, L., The Athenian Agora XII, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C., 2 vol., Princeton, New York, 1970, for overview of the type.
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