6th-4th century BC. A bronze bowl with rounded body and convex base, decorated with circumferential lines at the shoulder, lotus petals below, concentric circles to the base; band of dots to the interior above three tiers of scooped panels, a roundel composed of dots and floral motif at the centre. 229 grams, 12.2cm (5"). Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman; acquired from the widow of a Nottinghamshire, UK, gentleman; his collection having formed 1980s-1990s.