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AFRICAN RED SLIP HEAD-FLASK North Africa, near the style of Navigius's...
AFRICAN RED SLIP HEAD-FLASK
North Africa, near the style of Navigius's workshop, ca. AD 300 - 350
height cm 25,5
A girl with large almond-shaped eyes with impressed pupils, and incised details of the lashes and brows, wearing a diamond-shaped pendant between the eyebrows, her hair pulled up in a central top-knot and dressed in horizontal ridges around the top of the head, the funnel spout emerging from the top of the head, with an handle at the back.
Minor cracks and abrasions; some encrustations.
Provenance. From the collection of a Diplomatic since 1980s.