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LOT 0044
Mycenaean Pottery Stirrup Jar
1400-1200 B.C.
3 1/2 in. (154 grams, 91 mm wide).
A pottery vessel formed with a squat carinated body, slender waisted neck and similar central stem with two flanking handles; painted geometric ornament composed of concentric bands and clusters of lines.
Provenancewith Christie's, London, South Kensington, 12 December 1989, lot 220.
LiteratureCf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 74.51.5905 and 74.51.768, for similar.
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