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A Neo-Assyrian pale cream faience lidded pyxis

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3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
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A Neo-Assyrian pale cream faience lidded pyxis
Circa 9th-8th Century B.C.
Of cylindrical form, with two concentric circles beneath the rim on the exterior, two small loop handles on the interior, one now broken, the lid with two holes for attachment, decorated with a moulded rosette and a central knob handle, with remains of yellow and green glaze, 11.4cm high; 10.7cm diam.

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Provenance:
W.T. Ready collection, found at Abu-Habba.
Lieutenant General A.H.L.F. Pitt-Rivers collection, acquired from the above 12 June 1892 (Pitt-Rivers Museum catalogue, vol. 3, p. 830). Recorded as 'found with terracotta tablets and bronze, 15 to 20 feet beneath the surface', and housed in his museum in Farnham, Dorset.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 1991, lot 25.
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in July 1991.

For a closely-related Neo-Assyrian pyxis, also decorated with yellow and green glaze, see an example in the British Museum, London, acc. no. 1972,0413.1.

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