Cypriot Freefield Style pottery jug with birds

C60

£900.00

A Bichrome Ware squat pottery jug painted in the Freefield Style with two stylised wading birds separated by a pair of reeds on the front of the vase. The vessel is otherwise plain apart from a collar on the neck, a pair of painted eyes on the pinched rim and a zig-zag pattern on the back of the handle.

Culture
Cyprus, Early Iron Age, c. 750-600 BC

Size
12.2 x 13.2 cms

Condition
Minor chipping otherwise intact with light fading to the painted decoration as seen in the photographs

Provenance
Ex. collection: D. Broadbent, Manchester, UK; acquired from Folio Fine Arts or Charles Ede Ltd during the 1970’s-1980’s. With Charles Ede again in 2009 and published: catalogue 181, item 30 (2009); thence in the collection of Tarquin Grossman, Sussex, UK. Ede inventory labels under the base: A2718 and 8423.

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