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LOT 1230
Holy Land Pottery Cup
BRONZE AGE, 16TH-14TH CENTURY B.C.
4 in. (398 grams, 99 mm).
With rounded bottom and carinated profile, thick rim. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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Opening Bid: £1,000
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Circa 2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
Hemispherical bowl with two pinched lamps to the rim, inner face with two facing ladders, central rectangular recess with two integral bird figures, two anthropoid females placed against the sidewall; outer face with carinated rim and circumferential bands. 1.38 kg, 22 cm wide
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