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LOT 0110
Cypriot Bichrome Ware Terracotta Horse Model
CIRCA 850-750 B.C.
5 in. (168 grams, 13 cm high).
Modelled in the round, detailed in black and crimson.
Provenance
Lt. Col. H.A. Hill, R.A.M.C. while stationed in Cyprus as S.M.O in the 1920s, thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 74.51.1771, for very similar.
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