Bidspirit auction | BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO WARE POTTERY BOWL

BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO WARE POTTERY BOWL WITH FLORAL MOTIF - EX ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM - Ca. AD 1000 - 1200 A pottery bowl with a wide, rounded body on a short ring foot, the interior decorated in sgraffito with a central roundel encircled by a band of pointed petals in yellow, green and amber tones on a pale ground. Size: 85mm x 160mm; Weight: 486g. Provenance: Property of a central London gallery; Ex collection of James Alfred Brew (1923?2008), collected in Cyprus during the 1960s, thence by descent to Elaine Brew Discovered in Elea This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. Formerly in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.