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LOT 0076

Large Corinthian Mortarium with Frieze of Swans and Lions

ARCHAIC, CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.

13 1/4 in. (3.3 kg, 33.5 cm wide).

Broad dished bowl with carinated profile, flat rim with slashed detailing, band of reserved advancing lions and swans; central panel roughened for grinding. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Accompanied by a thermoluminescence analysis report no.N124d55 from Oxford Authentication.

Literature

Cf. fragment of a similar vessel in the British Museum under accession no.1888,0601.762.

CONDITION

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LOT 0076

Large Corinthian Mortarium with Frieze of Swans and Lions

Sold for (Inc. bp): £364

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