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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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LOT 0553

Cypriot Grey Ware Pottery Bowl

Sold for (Inc. bp): £98

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