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LOT 0068
Cypriot White-Slip Ware Jug
CIRCA 1450-1200 B.C.
6 3/4 in. (251 grams, 17.2 cm).
With bulbous body and slender tapering neck with strap handle to the rear, trumpet-shaped mouth; hatched bands and lozenges to the body and shoulder, multilinear rings to the neck; old collector's label marked '4' and '15.79' inked to the underside. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceRed-ink inscription '15.79' to the base suggesting it may have been deaccessioned from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Opening Bid: £2,000
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Greek Archaic Bronze Brooch
7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising a simple arched bow, coiled pin and a flaring catch-plate. 2.58 grams, 47 mm
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Cypriot Trefoil-Mouthed Pottery Jug with Geometric Motif
Iron Age, circa 900-700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
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. 495 grams, 21.2 cm high
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.
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.
