Live Auction 9296THE DESMOND MORRIS COLLECTION
A LARGE CYPRO-PALESTINIAN BICHROME WARE JUG
Lot 72

A LARGE CYPRO-PALESTINIAN BICHROME WARE JUG

LATE BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 1600 B.C.

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A LARGE CYPRO-PALESTINIAN BICHROME WARE JUG
LATE BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 1600 B.C.
The round body with tall neck flaring towards the rim, single handle, decorated with three registers of elegant lotus stems, a stem with coiled petals below the handle, on ring foot, minor repair and restoration to rim
16 3/8 in. (41.7 cm.) high

Specialist note

PUBLISHED:
The Art of Ancient Cyprus, pp. 238 and 240, pl. 268.

This vessel appears to illustrate the earliest known example of the lotus motif being used in Cyprus. Whether it was made in Cyprus by an immigrant potter or was imported from abroad is not yet known.