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Property from an English Private Collection (Lots 1-4)
Lot 1

A rare Corinthian pottery plate

3 July 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £4,480 inc. premium

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A rare Corinthian pottery plate

Circa early 6th Century B.C.
24.3cm diam., old label on the underside and pencil inscription; 'abt 550 B.C. Athens'

Footnotes

Provenance:
Phyllis Cornish Collection (1894-1968), Salcombe Regis, Devon.
M. R. Tomkinson (1916-1986), inherited from the above.
English private collection inherited from the above in 1986.

Set on a double ring base with a grooved down-turned lip decorated with a series of vertical zig-zags, a double piercing on one side of the rim, the upper surface with a central clockwise whirligig surrounded by a solid band, then four dotted bands and another solid band, the main surface decorated with a siren with out-stretched wings flanked by seated sphinxes, then panthers, two grazing antelope flank a panther on the opposing side; the underside of the plate is decorated with a standing siren with out-stretched wings, incised rosettes in the field.

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