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Lot 12

Two Cypriot red and black polished ware bottles
2

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

Sold for £2,550 inc. premium

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Two Cypriot red and black polished ware bottles
Early-Middle Bronze Age, circa 2000-1800 B.C.
Comprising a bottle with residual lug handles at the shoulder, with incised zig-zag decoration; and a bottle with incised bands of linear decoration and three bands of concentric motifs intersected by horizontal linear bands, 12cm and 13cm high respectively (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired prior to 1985.

Published:
D. Morris, The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1985, p. 65, pl. 93 (the residual lug bottle).

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