Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 36
A Cypriot white painted ware flask
28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
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
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.