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Lot 62

A group of eleven small Cypriot pottery vessels
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28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A group of eleven small Cypriot pottery vessels
Bronze Age-Iron Age, circa 2000-475 B.C.
Comprising three Bronze Age vessels: a red polished ware hemispherical bowl, a white painted ware jug with cutaway beak spout, umber fired red with closed hatched geometric decoration, and a 'poppy' flask; and eight Cypro-Archaic Iron Age vessels: an ovoid jug, a black on red ware kylix, a miniature barrel flask and a spherical flask each with ridged neck, a feeder flask, a bichrome ware amphora, and two dishes, one shallow, the other a miniature votive dish with two looped handles, both with concentric band decoration, 15cm high max.; the dishes 12cm diam. max. (11)

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

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