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LOT 0267
Western Asiatic Pottery Bowl with Two Idols
CIRCA 2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
8 5/8 in. (1.38 kg, 22 cm wide).
Hemispherical bowl with two pinched lamps to the rim, inner face with two facing ladders, central rectangular recess with two integral bird figures, two anthropoid females placed against the sidewall; outer face with carinated rim and circumferential bands. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Collected by the previous vendor's father in the early 1970s.
Acquired from Bonhams, London, 13 April 2011, no.353.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages and the original Bonhams lot tag.
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