Pre-Achaemenid Silver Phiale Mesomphalos

5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C. OR EARLIER

11 5/8 in. (904 grams, 29.5 cm wide).

A large silver dish with carinated everted rim, repoussé central boss and piriform panels, fluted surround with lotus plant motif; some restoration. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From an important North London collection, formed 1980.
UK private collection.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11641-197739.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 47.100.84 and 55.122.1, for broadly similar bowls.

CONDITION

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LOT 0190