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LOT 0543
Red Polished Black Top Ware 'Tulip' Bowl with Animals
EARLY CYPRIOT I-II PERIOD, 2300-2100 B.C.
6 3/4 in. (426 grams, 17 cm wide).
Mammiform bowl with deep body and pointed base; two vertical concave lugs, one of which is pierced; fired black above and in the interior, and red below, all decorated with white lime-filled zigzags and circles on the body, with semicircles at the rim; repaired. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceTBC.
Acquired from Chrisitie’s, London, 29 April 2009, no.315./
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. similar item in the British Museum, London, under accession no.1939,0217.11.
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