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Tell Halaf Terracotta Painted Vessel Tell Halaf Terracotta Painted Vessel Tell Halaf Terracotta Painted Vessel
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LOT 0233

Tell Halaf Terracotta Painted 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.

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.

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LOT 0233

Tell Halaf Terracotta Painted Vessel

Estimate £1,800 - 2,400€2,090 - 2,780 (for guidance only)$2,430 - 3,240 (for guidance only)

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