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LOT 0348
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
STONE AGE 'CRANBORNE CHASE' TERRACOTTA BARROW BURIAL VESSEL
NEOLITHIC PERIOD-BRONZE AGE, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/8 in. (740 grams, 13 cm).
NEOLITHIC PERIOD-BRONZE AGE, 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/8 in. (740 grams, 13 cm).
With two bands of incised geometric ornament to the outer face, carinated rim; inked inscription to underside 'Barrow / Cranborne Chase / [...] burial'. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found Cranborne Chase, UK.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
LITERATURE:
See Grinsel, L., The Ancient Burial-mounds of England, London, 1953.
