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LOT 0720
Roman Bronze Bowl
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (335 grams, 78 mm wide).
A bronze bowl with a squat, barrel-shaped body, broad rim and foot; concentric raised basal rings; old French collection label to the body.
Provenance
Ex collection of Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), France.
Literature
Cf. Boucher, S. et al., Musée De La Civilisation Gallo-Romaine A Lyon: Bronzes Antiques 1, Lyon, 1976, p.137, for comparable basins.
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