Lot no. 63
CYPRIOT TERRACOTTA GEOMETRIC DISH
Ca. 1050 - 900 BC.
A beautiful, wheel-thrown pottery dish of shallow, circular, white-ground form decorated with ample motifs painted in red-orange pigment. A fine example of the "white-painted II/III ware" style, this dish exhibits a shallow basin adorned with concentric circles. The upper side is extensively accentuated with radiating triangular spokes around the centre.
Size: 25mm x 220mm; Weight: 425g.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery, acquired on the German art market; Ex. collection IL, Austria, acquired between 1960 and 1990.
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