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LOT 0585

Cypriot Trefoil-Mouthed Pottery Jug with Geometric Motif

IRON AGE, CIRCA 900-700 B.C.

8 1/2 in. (495 grams, 21.2 cm high).

With spherical body, conical neck and pinched trefoil mouth, gusseted strap handle; concentric painted circles to each lateral face and to the neck, fish motif beneath the spout and trefoil beneath the handle; repaired. [No Reserve]

Provenance

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.

Literature

Cf. Morris, D., The Art of ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1985, figs.19 p.42, pl.34a and pl.52 p.52, for the type.

Footnotes

In the Bichrome Ware, at the early Iron Age of Cyprus, patches of lines of reddish-brown paint were added to the black, on the pale background. Two styles of painting are prevalent: the rectilinear and the circle. The rectilinear style was more diffused in the eastern and southern regions of Cyprus, the circle one is found mainly in the western and northern areas.

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LOT 0585

Cypriot Trefoil-Mouthed Pottery Jug with Geometric Motif

Sold for (Inc. bp): £546

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