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LOT 0920
Romano-British Samian Ware Bowl Fragments
1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 3/4 - 8 7/8 in. (390 grams total, 12.3-22.5 cm).
Burnished redware bowl fragments, partly re-assembled, with carinated profile, everted rim, moulded frieze to the shoulder of leaping beasts and ivy leaves, swags to the underside with birds and other detailing. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound UK.
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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