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LOT 1306
Western Asiatic Terracotta Figurine of a Bird
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 5/8 in. (66 grams, 91 mm).
Rendered hollow as an aryballos with a funnel-shaped body on a stemmed foot; lateral projecting wings, forked tail feathers, bent neck with pouring hole; head absent, one wing reattached; old collector's label 'N2187' to base. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London art market, 2002.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00103133.
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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