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LOT 0571
Cypriot Poppy Head Flask
CIRCA 1450-1200 B.C.
4 1/4 in. (53 grams, 11 cm high).
With broad shoulder and tapering stem, flared neck, collars at the junction with the strap handle. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
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Greek Brown Ware Terracotta Cup
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Squat in profile with rounded underside, broad mouth with carinated rim and single strap handle. 162 grams, 12 cm wide
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. -
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Cypriot Stone Goddess and Child Statue
Iron Age, 6th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
The female seated on a chair with arm-supports at the sides, wearing a long robe with ruched panel to the chest and pleated sleeves, the hair drawn up into a transverse band above the brow, surmounted by a tiara; hands across the waist holding an infant with head erect; mounted on a custom-made stand; repaired. 1.54 kg total, 24 cm high including stand
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.
The statuette probably represents the goddess of fertility, originally imported from Crete in the 11th century B.C. but whose iconography survived in Cyprus until the 5th century B.C. The tiara is a characteristic attribute of this divinity, related to the Greek Demeter. The statue is probably a votive statue propitiatory for births. -
Greek Apulian Red-Figure Pottery Lekanis
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Old Belgian private collection, thence André Munter Archéologie, Brussels, Belgium. Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman.
