Great phiale mesomphalos. Pre-Achaemenid, 5th-4th... Lot 7

Great phiale mesomphalos. Pre-Achaemenid, 5th-4th century BC. Silver. Restored. Provenance: From an important North London collection, formed 1980.UK private collection/ Auction, UK, 2022; This lot has been checked against the Interpol database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no. 11641-197739; Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 47.100.84 and 55.122.1, for very similar bowls. Measurements: 29.5 cm wide/ 904 gr. This silver phiale has a carinated or fluted shoulder and an outward-turned rim. In the centre of the bowl is a raised projection, often referred to by the Greek term omphalos, surrounded by 16 tongue-shaped depressions. Between the depressions are deep, rounded lobes, or gadroons, and between these gadroons are smaller rounded lobes. This phiale has pyriform panels and a grooved rim with lotus vegetal motifs.