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LOT 1309
Jordanian Painted Terracotta Cup
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 3/8 in. (228 grams, 11.2 cm).
With a bulbous body and rounded base, a single strap handle to the rear with painted linear decoration, circumferential double band below the rim from which triple-banded chevrons extend towards the base.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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