Ca. 350-300 BC. Hellenistic/Magna Graecia. An intact ancient Greek bowl with traces of black glaze. The tondo is decorated with a rosette in relief encased by a raised swirling decoration. A sharp groove encircles the lower exterior wall of the bowl above the foot. The bowl has a rounded lip with a gently incurving profile and is set on a raised ring base. Good condition. Plates like these with incurving rims were a creation of the 4th century BC and lasted well into the Hellenistic Period. Rouletting is the most common form of decoration for them, along with palmettes, but few have as many bands as the present example, nor are they generally as complex and detailed in the stamping. For the stamp work, cf. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Capua, Museo Campano III, pl.27, no.3. For the form, cf. Brian A. Sparkes and Lucy Talcott, The Athenian Agora, Vol.XII, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th centuries BC, Part 2 (Princeton, 1970), pl.33, no.833. Size: L:45mm / W:190mm ; 331g. Provenance: From the private collection of a Kent gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1990s on the UK /European art markets.