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LOT 0043
Cypriot White-Slip Ware Tankard
CIRCA 1600-1450 B.C.
7 3/4 in. (535 grams, 19.5 cm).
With globular lower body supporting a broad and slightly waisted tubular neck with everted rim, D-shaped spur to the forward face, strap handle to the rear with flat-section thumb-pad, trumpet-shaped foot; the thumb-pad and rim with painted bands of pointillé decoration, rim with muti-linear radiating bands, vertical bands to the neck formed with hatched lozenges, hatched horizontal and vertical bands to the lower body and wavy linear bands beneath the foot; old collector's reference '15.76' to underside; [No Reserve]
Provenance
Formerly part of the Cesnola collection. this item has a red-ink inscription to the base suggesting it may have been deaccessioned from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
with Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 26 May 1982, no.411.
with Christie's, New York, 11 June 2003, no.95 (part).
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Christie's catalogue pages.
Literature
See Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus, The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, no.52, p.38, for a similar tankard.
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