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LOT 0047
Cypriot Painted Amphora with Double Strap Handles
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 750 B.C.
7 1/4 in. (1 kg, 18.3 cm).
With narrow trumpet-shaped foot, broad shoulder and ribbed lateral handles; painted circumferential bands to the inner neck, rim and body, hatched panels and symbols to the shoulder. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Phillips, 27 November 2001, lot 51.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. Brown, A.C., Catling, H.W., Ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1975, p.45, no.5, for the type.
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