8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE POTTERY JUG
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
The spherical body with black and red concentric bands and pinched spout, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high; a pottery stylized horned animal protome, 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high; a terracotta 'plank' idol, 13¼ in. (34 cm.) high; and a group of mainly Eastern Mediterranean plainware pottery vessels, 1st millennium B.C. or later, 2¾ in. (7 cm.) high max.(a lot)
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
The spherical body with black and red concentric bands and pinched spout, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high; a pottery stylized horned animal protome, 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high; a terracotta 'plank' idol, 13¼ in. (34 cm.) high; and a group of mainly Eastern Mediterranean plainware pottery vessels, 1st millennium B.C. or later, 2¾ in. (7 cm.) high max.(a lot)
Provenance
Acquired in the 1960s-1970s by Peter Gimpel for Gimpel Fils Ltd, London. Item one: sold Sotheby's London, 22 December 1975, part lot 208.
Special notice
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