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LOT 0054
Large Cypriot Painted Buff Ware Oinochoe
IRON AGE, CYPRO-GEOMETRIC III, CIRCA 850-750 B.C.
11 7/8 in. (1.67 kg, 30 cm high).
With trefoil folded rim to the mouth, painted bands to the strap handle, grid to the equator and running scrolls to the shoulder linking hatched rectangles; restored. [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: £750
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Hellenistic or Roman Bronze Statuette of a Grotesque Holding a Jar
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From 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.
Such figures are often described as ‘grotesques’, yet typically constituted overstated representations of people with dwarfism. Such individuals are invariably shown with exaggerated features such as pot bellies, hunched backs, bald heads, large phalli and angry facial expressions.
