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Tell Halaf Painted Terracotta Vessel Tell Halaf Painted Terracotta Vessel Tell Halaf Painted Terracotta Vessel
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LOT 0249

Tell Halaf Painted Terracotta Vessel

2900-2500 B.C.

7 in. (712 grams, 18 cm wide).

Biconical in profile with narrow base, broad shoulder and everted flared rim; painted concentric herringbone band to the shoulder and swags beneath.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12258-222363.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

See Abd el-Mesih Baghdo, Lutz Martin, Mirko Novák, Winfried Orthmann, Ausgrabungen auf dem Tell Halaf in Nordost-Syrien. Vorbericht über die erste und zweite Grabungskampagne, Wiesbaden, 2009.

CONDITION
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LOT 0249

Tell Halaf Painted Terracotta Vessel

Estimate £1,500 - 2,000€1,740 - 2,320 (for guidance only)$2,030 - 2,700 (for guidance only)

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