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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]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. similar bowl in red clay in the University of Saint Andrews, id no.HC1994 3 (120).
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