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Lot 72

A Daunian pottery askos

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Daunian pottery askos
Circa 5th Century B.C.
With a short cylindrical spout and conjoined strap handle, a small stylised conical tail at the base of the handle, the rounded body decorated with horizontal bands and waves, details in added brown, 27cm high

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

For a similarly shaped askos with wave banding, see the Beazley Archive, vase no. 1009774, from Collezione Rossi, Locarno, acc. no. 97.

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