A Painted Ceramic Spouted Bowl, Middle Bronze Age, Cyprus

A beautiful painted ceramic bowl with ancient dark red pigment on lighter red background from ancient Cyprus. A well formed spout, and a hole at the other end for attachment. Excellent original pigment and a 19th century collection number. Intact with no apparent repairs. From a bronze age culture under domination at the time by the Assyrians, and heavily influenced by neighboring Minoan culture on Crete.

A piece showing less fine paint is illustrated, plate 22, The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Desmond Morris, Phaidon Press, Oxford.
Circa 1800 BC. Rare

diameter: 26 cm/ 10 1/4 in
height: 8 cm/ 3 in

$950

Sale Price: $570