Live Auction 2773A Palladian Villa By Michael S. Smith
FOUR BYZANTINE ENGRAVED SLIPWARE BOWLS
Lot 298

FOUR BYZANTINE ENGRAVED SLIPWARE BOWLS

CIRCA 12TH CENTURY A.D.

Closed24 April 2013

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FOUR BYZANTINE ENGRAVED SLIPWARE BOWLS
CIRCA 12TH CENTURY A.D.
Three bowls each with a raptor, the larger two between folliate branches, the third encircled by two bands of floral motifs; and one with a small bird within four concentric bands of stylized scrollwork; each of red earthenware, with a greenish-yellow or cream slip
Largest: 10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter (4)

Private Collection, Japan, acquired in the late 1970s-early 1980s.
A Private Collection; Christie's, New York, 12 December 2002, lot 111.

Specialist note

For similar examples of two, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see nos. 181 and 187 in Evans and Wixom, ed., The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261.