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Phiale (Bowl for Liquid Offerings)
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Silver bowl with high, scalloped walls forming seven lobes and a central domed omphalos surrounded by a grooved band. Interior of vessel is shiny silver which becomes more mottled towards rim. Exterior surface is more mottled with black, gray, and silver surface color.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Prior to going through sale at Bonhams once on 13 April 2000 and again on 3 October 2000 the silver phiale belonged to a German antiquities dealer for a considerable period of time. It was purchased from a trade source in Munich around 1995-1996.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum David M. Robinson Fund
Title: Phiale (Bowl for Liquid Offerings)
Description:
Silver bowl with high, scalloped walls forming seven lobes and a central domed omphalos surrounded by a grooved band.
Interior of vessel is shiny silver which becomes more mottled towards rim.
Exterior surface is more mottled with black, gray, and silver surface color.
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