LARGE CYPRIOT BRONZE AGE TERRACOTTA AMPHORA
Ca. 2300-1650 BC.
An attractive red slip ware amphora with a bulbous body, slim cylindrical neck, tubular rim, and two handles joining shoulder to neck. Amphorae such as this were used to hold and transport oil, wine, milk, or grain. During the Late Bronze Age, Cyprus was an important centre for the manufacture of works of art that show an amalgam of local and foreign influences. Stylistic features and iconographic elements borrowed from Egypt, the Near East, and the Aegean are often mixed together in Cypriot works. The pottery of the prehistoric Cypriots, especially that produced in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, is exuberant and imaginative in shape and decoration.
Size: L:400mm / W:270mm ; 3.75kg
Provenance: Property of a central London Gallery; formerly in a 1980s UK collection.
Estimate: GBP 750 - 1500