A CYPRIOT WHITE PAINTED WARE POTTERY JUG, the spherical body decorated in the 'free field' style with a stylized fir-tree motif flanked on either side by twin swastikas, pinched rim with 'eye' motif on either side, ladder pattern down the handle, details painted in black; and another similar, smaller, the body undecorated -- 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) and 5 in. (12.8 cm.) high respectively, Iron Age, 8th-6th Century B.C. (2)

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A CYPRIOT WHITE PAINTED WARE POTTERY JUG, the spherical body decorated in the 'free field' style with a stylized fir-tree motif flanked on either side by twin swastikas, pinched rim with 'eye' motif on either side, ladder pattern down the handle, details painted in black; and another similar, smaller, the body undecorated -- 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) and 5 in. (12.8 cm.) high respectively, Iron Age, 8th-6th Century B.C. (2)

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