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LOT 1505
Stone Age Corded Ware Decorated Ceramic Vessel
EARLY 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/2 in. (254 grams, 88 mm).
A squat vessel with flat base and barrel-shaped body with incised band below the rim, impressed arrowhead motifs. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in Germany after WWII; thence by descent 2006.
Ex property of a lady living in Kent, UK.
See Briard, J., The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe, London, 1979, for discussion.
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