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LOT 0591
Cypriot Terracotta Vessel Group
IRON AGE, CYPRO-GEOMETRIC, 950-850 B.C.
3 - 6 1/2 in. (812 grams total, 7.7-16.5 cm).
Including a thin-walled bowl with painted motifs, an amphora with 'attached' handles and a small oinochoe decorated with circlets. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. Karageorghis, V., Cipro, Crocevia del Mondo Mediterraneo orientale 1600-500 a.C., Milano, 2002, fig.302 p,340, for a similar amphora.
FootnotesThe objects are proto-white painted pottery, with abstract linear lines and drawings, and circlets. The design of the pots and vessels followed local traditions, but as an island with links stretching across the Eastern Mediterranean, Levantine and Aegean coasts, Cyprus was influenced by foreign ceramic fashions of the time. The beautiful concentric circles were reminiscent of the sun; careful horizontal and vertical lines intersecting each other forming a graphic landscape.
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Including fragments of storage vessel, bowl and other items, some with painted ornament, some with handle and rim elements. 3.9 kg total, 2.5-22 cm
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. -
Greek Italic Silver Fibula
5th-4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Segmented body with central filigree wiring, collared knops to three corners, integral coiled pin and trapezoidal catchplate with lotus flower engraved to the outer face, loop with stylised serpentine head to base. 13.5 grams, 63 mm
Acquired in Europe before 1994. European collection. -
Etruscan Blackware Terracotta Kyathos
6th century B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £600
Squat bowl with pedestal foot and carinated profile, broad flared rim; tall loop handle with flat frontal panel with advancing nude kouros, the head turned and one arm bent, voided below respecting the inner outline of the legs; to the reverse, an incised gorgoneion with broad gaping mouth. 1.15 kg, 27 cm
English private collection.
