BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO WARE CUP WITH GEOMETRIC AND FLORAL MOTIF - EX ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM. Ca. AD 1300 - 1400 A sgraffito ware cup with a hemispherical bowl set on a spreading foot. The exterior is decorated below the rim with an encircling incised line above a series of long vertical strokes, with splashes of yellow and green glaze over a pale slip. The interior shows a central medallion enclosing a small oval motif framed by four opposed scrolls, the well accented by broad streaks of green and yellow glaze. Around the upper wall runs an inner border of zigzag between concentric lines. Size: 85mm x 109mm; Weight: 196g. Provenance: Property of a central London gallery; Ex collection of James Alfred Brew (1923–2008), collected in Cyprus during the 1960s, thence by descent to Elaine Brew Discovered in Elea This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. For similar see: The Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Identifier: mmr_00138. Formerly in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.