MIDDLE BRONZE AGE, 1900-1650 B.C.

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A CYPRIOT WHITE PAINTED WARE JUG WITH TRIPOD BASE
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE, 1900-1650 B.C.
The round bodied jug with beak spout, the neck with oval side aperture, small loop handle, decorated with bands of black painted zigzags and cross-hatched triangles, on three small feet, one foot and spout tip restored, 7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high; another beak-spouted jug, similar, with rounded base, 7½ in. (19 cm.) high; a jug with cutaway-beak spout, similar ware, small loop handle, three bosses around base of neck, four others around the body, overall with black painted linear decoration, vertical cross-hatched bands interspersed with vertical wavy lines, spout repaired, 6¼ in. (16 cm.) high; and a jug, similar ware, with cylindrical neck and anthropomorphic thumb-rest at join with handle, the tall stylized head with large projecting nose and pierced eyes, overall decorated with registers of cross-hatched connecting triangles and diamond motifs, repaired, 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high, all Middle Bronze Age, circa 1800-1650 B.C. (4)

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The Art of Ancient Cyprus, p. 54, pl. 59 (item two), p. 56, pl. 66a (item three), p. 64, pl. 91 (item one) and p. 159, pl. 189a (item four).

Item one: this jug was Desmond Morris's first acquisition of the collection.

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