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LOT 0725
Roman Samian Bowl Sherd with Rabbit
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
6 3/4 in. (92 grams, 17 cm).
Fragment of the shoulder of a decorated bowl with scrolled tendrils beneath the rim, chevron, ropework,tendril and other ornament and a rabbit in profile; old label '001' to inner face; repaired from three fragments. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
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