Astarte

Auction 25  –  11 June 2025

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Astarte, Auction 25

Antiquities & ancient Jewelry

We, 11.06.2025, from 2:00 PM CEST
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Description

A RARE EGYPTIAN PAINTED POTTERY BOWL.
Coptic art, 6th-8th century
H. 12,5 cm / Diam. 38 cm.

Provenance
Ex Beaux Arts, 21.8.1991.

The border of the recessed field is adorned with an ondulated frieze with black strokes. In the large central field, animals and vegetal motifs are distribued in sections divided by red lines with black strokes, waves and dots. In the "ombo" a 4 petal flower in a circles outsided by running animals.
This swiftly painted ceramic was an everyday object; neither the material, form, size, nor decoration provide any indication that the plate, as recently speculated, was intended for ecclesiastical purposes. Assembled from large fragments and restored.
For such painted plate see, Das Museum für Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunst Berlin, p.192, 104.

Estimate: 3000 - 3500 CHF

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