A HELLENISTIC MEGARIAN POTTERY BOWL
Ca. 200-300 AD. A pottery red burnished bowl of hemispherical form with decorative linear ovolo pattern and the lower part decorated relief depicting a scene. For similar see Tanju Anlagan, Sadberk Hanim Museum. Moldmade bowls and related wares (Istanbul 2000), Cf. Baur, P.V.C., ‘Megarian Bowls in the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian vases in Yale University’ in American Journal of Archaeology, vol.45, no.2, April-June, 1941, pp.229-248. Size: L:70mm / W:120mm ; 190g. Provenance: Formerly in the Hanita and Aaron Dechter Collection, Los Angeles, acquired before 1989. Previously with Charles Ede, London. Published: K. Hamma ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, no. 50. Exhibited: San Bernardino, California State University; and Art Galleries, Califoria State University, Northridge, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5May-2 June 1989 and 26 February-30 March 1990.

Estimate: GBP 450 - 900