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LOT 0082
Cypriot Terracotta Amphora
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
15 in. (4.4 kg, 38 cm high).
Buffware vessel with bands of painted decoration on the ovoid body and on the rim, panels of reeding, saltires, gammadions and other ornament to the neck, loop handles.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Lebanon, early 1970s.
Private collection, acquired in the late 1980s.
Thence by descent, family collection, since 1998.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12653-234696.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Karagheorghis, V., Ancient Art from Cyprus, The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pp. 90-93, nos. 143, 145-148; Karagheorghis, V. et al., Cypriote Antiquities in the Royal Ontario Museum, Nicosia, 2003, pp. 37 ff., no. 59; Spiteris, T., The Art of Cyprus, New York, 1970, pp. 102-107, pp. 156-157; Yon, M., Manuel de céramique chypriote, I, Problèmes historiques, Vocabulaire, Méthode, Lyon, 1976, pp. 59-64.
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