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Lot 225*

A Roman red-gloss ware bowl with gladiator decoration

24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Roman red-gloss ware bowl with gladiator decoration
Circa 1st Century A.D.
The deep terra sigillata bowl with moulded decoration including four panels of gladiators in combat interspersed with lions, bears and birds, 5½in (13.5cm) high, 6¼in (15.5cm) diam

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Cyrus Collection. Property of Fay Safani, New York.
Inherited from Edward Safani.
German private collection, Underberg, Germany.
Dr Ertel Collection, Germany, acquired in the 1970s.

Literature:
A bowl of similar form can be found in the British Museum, acc. no. PE 1853.1-10.5: a central Gaulish Samian ware vase of form Dragendorff 30, with the name-stamp of the potter Divixtus in the decoration, A.D. 150-190.

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