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LOT 0057
Phoenician Bowl with Crimson and Black Decorations
4TH CENTURY B.C.
2 3/8 in. (49.2 grams, 63 mm).
With a narrow basal ring, a flared rim, and painted circumferential bands.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Los Angeles, USA.
Acquired on the American art market.
European private collection.
Cf. identical Bowl without decoration in Moscati, S., I Fenici, Milano, 1988, p.125.
FootnotesSimilar pottery has been found in the Phoenician necropolis of Villaricos near Madrid (tomb 1082), although undecorated. The pottery seems to be of Iberian-Phoenician style, being bowls of similar type and decorated found also in the necropolis of Tutugi, Galera, Granada, Andalusia.
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