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LOT 0053
Heavy Cypriot Pottery Brazier
CIRCA 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
15 1/2 in. (12.1 kg, 39.5 cm wide).
Tubular terracotta form with crenellated rim, four inward-facing lugs each with a hole beneath, inner ledge, lateral vents and square aperture at the base; hatched texture to the rim; two lateral ledge handles. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Stella Pitt Rivers collection, Dorset Museum, UK.
Acquired from Sotheby's, London, 13 May 1980, no.160.
with Bonhams, London, 15 October 2008, no.139.
with Bonhams, London, 29 April 2009, no.340.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages and original lot ticket.
Exhibited: On loan to the museum of Mediterranean Antiquities, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, March 1995 - April 2008.
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