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Lot 52*

An Etruscan impasto ware urn

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

£800 - £1,200

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An Etruscan impasto ware urn
Circa 8th-7th Century B.C.
The biconical double-handled vessel of brown fabric, with a lid pierced at the edges, rising to a column, rounded at the top, 54.5cm high (incl. the lid)

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Provenance:
Private collection, New Mexico, acquired prior to 1991.

For a similar urn with tall disproportionate lid, cf. S. Cassani, The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000-300 B.C., Geneva, 1993, p. 96, no. 4.

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