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Celtiberian pottery kalathos
CELTIBERIAN POTTERY KALATHOS

Cylindrical with canted lip and two handles, depicting four helmeted hunters, one of them holding the reins of a horse, accompanied by two ferocious looking hounds, attacking a stag and a hind. The field is filled with ornaments and inscriptions.
Choice and rare.
Cf. Die Iberer, exhibition catalog, Bonn 1998, p. 265f, no. 41.

Ex Brian North Lee collection, Chiswick, England, acquired in 1986.

Ca. 2nd Century BC.

H. 8 7/8 in. (22 cm.); Diam. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2012, no. 132
GMQ37
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Celtiberian pottery kalathos
Celtiberian pottery kalathos
Celtiberian pottery kalathos

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