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LOT 0024
Phoenician Alabastron with Handles
6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
7 3/4 in. (650 grams, 19.7 cm high).
Comprising a slender alabaster piriform body and two lateral lug handles, conical neck with broad everted rim.
ProvenanceGiusfredi collection, 1980s.
Swiss private collection, acquired May 1999.
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 of Art, New York, accession no.74.51.5120, for similar; cf. also Bissing, F.W., Studien zur ältesten Kultur Italiens. IV. Alabastra. Studi Etruschi 13, pp.131-78, pls.XII-XIII, for similar examples.
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