ASSYRIAN COLONY OR OLD HITTITE, 17TH-16TH CENTURY B.C. OR LATER

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A POTTERY CEREMONIAL CUP WITH CAT'S FACE
ASSYRIAN COLONY OR OLD HITTITE, 17TH-16TH CENTURY B.C. OR LATER
The feline face with alert ears and circular eyes, with projecting muzzle, single loop handle, repaired
4 1/8 in. (10.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1986, II, no. 13; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 92.

Cf. Exhibition catalogue, Treasures from Turkey, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, 1986, p. 96, no. 113, for similar.

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