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Lot 24

A Daunian pottery olla

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£800 - £1,200

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A Daunian pottery olla
Circa 6th-4th Century B.C.
With a broad funnel shaped neck, the rounded body with a pair of arched handles and a pair of rectangular lugs rising from the shoulder, with banded and undulating decoration in ochre slip, 21.5cm high

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Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the 1970s at Sotheby's, London.

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