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Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
CIRCA 2300-1650 B.C.
13 in. (667 grams total, 33 cm high including stand).
A ceramic burnished ware zoomorphic jug with a piriform body, slender cylindrical neck with tapering U-section spout with integral handle to rear and perforated lug to the base of the neck at the front; decorated with a shallow incised geometric motifs composed of clusters of horizontal lines and bands of lozenges with hatched fill, chevrons along the spine of the handle; accompanied by a display stand; some restoration.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the 1990s.
From a North Yorkshire private collection, UK.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Tatton-Brown, V., Ancient Cyprus, London, 1987, p.37, fig.34, for similar jug.
FOOTNOTES:
Red burnished ware pottery became the dominant pottery ware lasting into the Middle Bronze Age on the island of Cyprus. Vessels were handmade and covered with a slip, which was burnished and often decorated with patterns incised with a sharp cutting edge before being fired. Potters were able to produce vessels that were either mottled or painted in two colours, often red outside and black inside and on the exterior of the rim.
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