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LOT 1601
Western Asiatic Single-Handled Flask
12TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
2 7/8 in. (33.59 grams, 72 mm).
With wheel-cut frieze of animals to the body, traces of pigment remaining.
Provenance
Ex Parisian gallery, France, 1980s.
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