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LOT 1310
Western Asiatic Green Stone Pestle and Mortar
CIRCA 17TH CENTURY A.D.
6 7/8 - 11 1/8 in. (4 kg total, 17.5-28.3 cm).
Comprising a shallow mortar, ellipsoid in plan with rounded rim; tapering pestle with broad grinding face. [2]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1995.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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.
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