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Cypriot Terracotta Jug, ex-Christies
Cypriot Terracotta Jug, ex-Christies
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Description
Greece, Cypriot, ca. 1800-1725 BCE. Middle Cypriot II white painted ware jug, the ovoid body on a flat offset base, the cylindrical neck with a bulge at its base, with a flat rim and a double reed loop handle, the body and neck decorated in brown with geometric bands of crosshatched triangles and lozenges.  Simply exquisite!  Size: 8-1/4"H (20.9 cm) . 

For a jug of related shape with an identical pattern see no. 36 in V. Karageorghis, Ancient Art From Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

Provenance: Ex-Christie's, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, Sale 2755, Antiquities, December 13, 2013. Ex-private Collection, acquired in Switzerland, 1980.

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Condition
It is intact, some abrasion and minor loss of pigment, more significant on the side without the handle. Overall near choice.
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Cypriot Terracotta Jug, ex-Christies

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