ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

A CYPRIOT BICHROME POTTERY JUG
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
15 7/8 in. (40.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Louis de Clercq (1836-1901), Paris.
Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva; thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

A. de Ridder, Collection de Clercq, Catalogue Tome V: Les Antiquités Chypriotes, Paris, 1908, no. 564, pl. XXXVI.

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Lot Essay

From the beginning of the second millennium B.C., potters began rendering human features on Cypriot vases. During the Cypro-Archaic I-II periods, mold-made and handmade parts of female figures began appearing on the vessels, as with this example. The female figure holds a jug in her right hand, which serves as the spout for the vessel. For a similar jug, see no. 168 in V. Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection, New York, 2000.

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