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LOT 0574
Cypriot Painted Terracotta Dish
EARLY IRON AGE, CIRCA 1050-600 B.C.
4 5/8 in. (81 grams, 11.8 cm).
Low ceramic dish with two loop handles to the underside, painted rim and tondo, concentric rings ro the underside and cruciform panel to the foot; pencilled collection number to the rim: '3128', inked collection number to the inside of one handle '[B]U 4139', and a red inked collection number: '634' on white painted panel to the base. [No Reserve]
Provenance
The red-ink inscription to the base suggesting it may have been deaccessioned from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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