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Lot 77

Four Cypriot pottery vessels
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7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Four Cypriot pottery vessels
Iron Age-Byzantine, circa 750 B.C.-14th Century A.D.
Comprising a bichrome ware trefoil-lipped jug, with overlapping rings of concentric decoration, 23.3cm high; an Iron Age white painted ware flask, with cylindrical ridged neck and single handle, with encircling umber bands and a criss-crossed linear motif at the neck, the base marked in black ink R.D.A. 1152 and in fainter ink SR12934844(?), 21cm high; a Hellenistic terracotta spindle-shaped unguentarium, 15.5cm; and a Byzantine polychrome sgraffito ware chalice, glazed in ochre and green on cream with incised chevron motifs, 8cm high, 10.7cm diam. (4)

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Provenance:
Private collection UK, inherited from Mr and Mrs Hector Thompson, acquired in the early 1940s.

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