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Lot 296

An Etruscan pottery dish

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

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An Etruscan pottery dish
Circa 700-670 B.C.
Of shallow form, a frieze of winged beasts in ochre on the exterior, surrounded by concentric bands, the interior decorated with concentric bands, two small suspension holes beneath the rim, 33cm diam.

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 14 May 2003, lot 486.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

Such dishes may derive from 8th Century B.C. Phoenician prototypes, and have been discovered primarily in tombs at Cerveteri. For a similar dish, decorated with herons (the most common subject for this type of plate), see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 2000.457.

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