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LOT 0492
Phoenician Bronze Basket Weight
7TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (14.7 grams, 23 mm).
The cuboid body with pellet ornament around the upper edge, openwork handles rising to a central point from four corners. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s.
From a North London collection.
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Opening Bid: £3,500
Sub-rectangular with keyhole-shaped aperture to the lower right edge; low-relief figure in profile wearing a tunic with circular neckline, bobbed hair swept behind the ears, sharp facial features with short goatee beard; bands of vertical fluting. 14.5 kg, 37.5 cm high
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no. 11830-207550.
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