BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO WARE FOOTED CUP WITH FALCON - EX ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM. Ca. AD 1300 - 1400 A sgraffito ware footed cup with a broad bowl rising from a conical lower body and flared circular foot. The interior shows a large falcon in the well with scattered green and yellow splashes and a band of the same colours running around the rim. The exterior upper section has a frieze of scrolling volutes and dotted motifs between plain bands, highlighted with further touches of green and yellow glaze. Size: 101mm x 134mm; Weight: 402g. 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 12.45.1. Formerly in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.