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Lot 11

A Cypriot red and black polished ware bottle

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Cypriot red and black polished ware bottle
Early-Middle Bronze Age, circa 2000-1800 B.C.
With flared pierced rim, long cylindrical neck and spherical body, incised with diamond, chequer, zig-zag, ladder and dotted line motifs, 15cm high

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Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired prior to 1985.

Published:
D. Morris, The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1985, p. 65, pl. 92.

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