
Francesca Hickin
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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.