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Lot 58

A Cypriot bichrome-ware pottery jug

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Cypriot bichrome-ware pottery jug
Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic, circa 750-600 B.C.
The body decorated with two opposing birds with long necks and splayed wings, stylised vegetation between, an encircling band at the neck, an 'eye' on either side of the pinched-in spout, 12.8cm high

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Provenance:
D. R. collection, England, acquired prior to 1969.

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