EARLY CYCLADIC I-II, CIRCA 3200-2300 B.C.

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A CYCLADIC MARBLE LIDDED SPHERICAL PYXIS
EARLY CYCLADIC I-II, CIRCA 3200-2300 B.C.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, 4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) wide max.

Provenance

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

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Descriptif du lot

PUBLISHED:
J. Thimme, Art and Culture of Cyclades, Chicago and London, 1977, p. 517, no. 345.
P. Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, Pennsylvania, 1996, p. 283, no. I26 (not ill.).

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