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LOT 0033
Cypriot Terracotta Jug with Bull's Head
CYPRO-ARCHAIC II - CYPRO-CLASSICAL I, 600-400 B.C.
14 1/2 in. (1.5 kg, 37.5 cm).
Comprising a bulbous body with conical flanged base, tubular neck and everted flange rim with chamfered upper face, loop handle to the shoulder with applied strip to the outer face and disc to each side; small spout to the shoulder formed as a bull's head; painted bands to the equator, base and lower neck. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Asian collection, purchased 1968-1972.
with Christie's, New York, 8 June 2001, no.127.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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