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LOT 0190
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]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 47.100.84 and 55.122.1, for broadly similar bowls.
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