Sale 7017
London
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26 - 27 October 2004
Price realised
GBP 6,572
Estimate
AN EARLY CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON CIRCA 600 B.C. The body with two facing heraldic cockerels flanking an inverted lotus and palmette motif, rosettes in the field, tongues and dots on mouth and neck and a six-pointed star on the base, details incised and in added purple 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high
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PUBLISHED: Animals, 1981, I, no. 92; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 36.
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