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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]

Provenance

Red-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.

CONDITION

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LOT 0068

Cypriot White-Slip Ware Jug

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120

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