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LOT 0553
Cypriot Grey Ware Pottery Bowl
IRON AGE, CYPRO-GEOMETRIC, 950-850 B.C.
9 5/8 in. (635 grams, 24.5 cm wide).
Broad shallow body with disc base, thick rim with pierced lug handle; repaired. [No Reserve]
Provenance
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
Cf. similar bowl in red clay in the University of Saint Andrews, id no.HC1994 3 (120).
Footnotes
Important Cypro-Geometric ceramic types include white-painted and bichrome wares, often decorated with geometric motifs and showing inventive shapes; slightly later, a distinctive black-on-red wares was developed on Cyprus, partly as a result of contact with the Levant.
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