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Lot 77 - Auction 43

Outstanding Etruscan strainer 5th century BC
Price realized:
3.000,00 GBP
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2

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Lot status:
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Description



Outstanding Etruscan strainer
5th century BC
height cm 14 (5,5”); diam. cm 20 (7,9”)
Shield shape strainer with chamfered loop ending in five knots between two glass paste beads, a heart-shape leaf below. A delicately punched double pinwheel pattern at the bottom of the bowl and incised geometric patterns around the inner wall circumference and concentric stylized petals on outer.
Strainers were part of the equipment for symposium, serving to strain the wine or additives mixed into it.

PROVENANCE
Property of a gentleman; acquired on the European art market between 1960s and 1980s.
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