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LOT 0056
Cypriot Decorated Kylix
850-750 B.C.
8 1/4 in. (685 grams, 21 cm wide).
With domed foot and short stem supporting a broad bowl with carination below the rim and two lateral ledge handles; bands of painted concentric rings to the inner face in black and red, similar to the shoulder above panels of vertical stripes, arrows and other motifs; median Maltese cross to one face and bull's eye motif to the other.
Provenance
With Sotheby's London, antiquities sale, 17 May 1983, lot 132.
Acquired from the above by Mr Leinonen, by descent to his son, Stan Leinonen.
On loan to the Detroit Institute of Arts 6 December 1983-24 April, 2019.
On view in Hallway East of Rivera Court circa 1989 and again in European Medieval and Renaissance in the 2000s.
Literature
Cf. similar in the collection of the British Museum under accession no.1869,0604.21.
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