A Cypriot plain ware pottery pig rattle
Cypro-Classical - Hellenistic Period, circa 5th-1st Century B.C.
Of hollow cylindrical form, the back incised with a chevron pattern of bristles, set on short legs, the face with pierced eyes and flared snout, the front with some traces of red slip, 5¾in (14.5cm)
Cypro-Classical - Hellenistic Period, circa 5th-1st Century B.C.
Of hollow cylindrical form, the back incised with a chevron pattern of bristles, set on short legs, the face with pierced eyes and flared snout, the front with some traces of red slip, 5¾in (14.5cm)
Sold for
£1,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Collection of Peter Cran, Scotland, who worked as an engineer for the Cypriot
public works department 1931-1946. Thence by descent.
Literature:
For an almost identical pig rattle cf. D. Morris, The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1985, p.213 pl. 242a.
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