EARLY BRONZE AGE, 2500-1900 B.C.

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A CYPRIOT BLACK-TOPPED RED POLISHED WARE BOWL
EARLY BRONZE AGE, 2500-1900 B.C.
The deep bowl with horizontal 'wishbone' handle, a single projecting lug opposite, with linear incisions around the rim exterior, 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high; three similar plain hemispherical bowls each with single pierced rim lug, 4 to 5 3/8 in. (10.2 to 13.7 cm.) diam.; a Red-and-Black Polished Ware bowl with twin lugs, one pierced, decorated with incised chequered lozenges and other linear motifs, 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) diam.; two Black-Topped Red Polished Ware bottles, the round body with tall narrow neck and flaring rim, decorated with incised geometric motifs, 6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high max.; an Early to Middle Bronze Age Red-and-Black Polished Ware bottle, similar, the flaring rim pierced twice, 4¾ in. (12.2 cm.) high; a similar ware jug, with lug at base of neck and incised decoration, restored, 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high; a group of juglets including three Incised Red Polished Ware gourd juglets and two plain Black Polished Ware juglets, 3 to 5 3/8 in. (7.6 to 13.7 cm.) high, all Early Bronze Age, 2500-1900 B.C.; and three Drab Polished Ware juglets, two with cutaway-beak spouts, all with raised bosses and incised linear decoration, Middle Bronze Age, 1900-1650 B.C., 4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high max., some with repair (19)

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The Art of Ancient Cyprus, p. 71, pl. 119 (item one), p. 22, pl. 13e (item two), p. 23, pl. 14c (item five), p. 65, pl. 92a (item six), pl. 92d (item eight), p. 51, pl. 48a (item seventeen) and p. 55, pl. 61a/b (items eighteen and nineteen, said to be Incised Red Polished Ware, close to Drab Polished Ware).

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