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Lot 36

A Cypriot white painted ware flask

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Cypriot white painted ware flask
Bronze Age, circa 1800-1650 B.C.
The neck of anthropoid form with pierced eyes and ears, the handle forming the nose, creating a stylised human face, the ovoid body decorated with bands of linked hatched lozenge motifs, between chequered linear bands, both sides with vertical bands of decoration, 26cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, acquired prior to 1985.
The Desmond Morris Collection; Christie's, London, 6 November 2001, lot 113.
G. Kyriacou collection, London, acquired from the above sale.

Published:
D. Morris, The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1985, p. 159, pl. 189.

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