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Cypriot Grey Ware Pottery Bowl Cypriot Grey Ware Pottery Bowl Cypriot Grey Ware Pottery Bowl
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LOT 0545

Cypriot Grey Ware Pottery Bowl

IRON AGE, CYPRO-GEOMETRIC, CIRCA 950-850 B.C.

9 in. (820 grams, 23 cm wide).

Broad squat bowl with carinated profile, everted stepped rim, single pierced ledge 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).

CONDITION
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LOT 0545

Cypriot Grey Ware Pottery Bowl

Sold for (Inc. bp): £72

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