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Lot 45*

A Cycladic marble kandila

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

Sold for £11,937.50 inc. premium

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A Cycladic marble kandila
Early Cycladic I, circa 3200-2800 B.C.
The hemispherical body set on a high gently flaring foot, with four protruding pierced lug handles, and a broad upright rim, 12.7cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1991, lot 202.
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in July 1991.

For similar, see J. Thimme, Art and Culture of the Cyclades, Zurich, 1977, p. 502, no. 269.

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