A beautiful ceramic dish with a wide hemispherical body and handles on either side. Ochre concentric bands decorate the inner bowl, the rim handles and possibly previously decorated the base of the bowl. Covering a period of over two thousand years, from the Minoan era (from around or even before 3000 BC) up until the end of the Hellenistic period (31 BC), Greek pottery is often thought to have reached its apex in the fifth and sixth centuries BC. They were found in many forms, styles and uses, ranging from those used for daily life to those used for funerary practices. Size: H 5.5 cm x W 19.3cm Provenance: Ex Property of a North London gentleman; from a European Collection of Italic native pottery, France, bought in Paris in the 1990s.