ANCIENT CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE OINOCHOE
CYPRUS, CYPRO-ARCHAIC PERIOD, C. 750 - 600 B.C.
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Auction: 13 March 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
painted terracotta, trefoil lipped, the globular body decorated on each side with a large circular motif containing a ring and border of smaller concentric circles executed in red and umber
Dimensions
24.8cm tall
Provenance
Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 30th March 1976, lot 220 (a copy of the catalogue entry from this sale is available)
Frank Raysor (1943 - 2022), Virginia & New York, until 1991
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, accession number 1991,200, 1991 - 2023, gifted by the above