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Lot 159

A Cypriot pottery amphora

22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

Sold for £704 inc. premium

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A Cypriot pottery amphora

Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic, circa 750-600 B.C.
36.5cm high

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Provenance:
William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); and thence by descent to the present owner.

Lord Amherst was a Conservative MP and a prolific collector, most notably of Egyptian antiquities, which were sold at Sotheby's in London in 1921.

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