Artworks

Cypriot White Painted Ware bowl, Cypro-Geometric, c.1050-750 BC

Terracotta

Width across the handles: 32.3cm

10558 IVP

Shallow bowl with two horizontal loop handles level with the rim, the surface decorated with concentric circles, the base with three hatched triangles pointing to a central circle. The dish intact with slight touching-in of the paint to interior.

Provenance

Desmond Morris, London, UK; sold by Christie's, London, UK
Cyprus Museum of Jacksonville, North Carolina, acc.no.356

Two documents demonstrate that the collection was acquired legally with the full knowledge of the Cypriot Government. The first document, a one page official message dated January 1990 and signed by Cypriot President George Vassiliou, praises the North Carolina museum and endorses its cultural and historic mission.The second document is a notarized affidavit signed by the museum''s director. It declares that all of the museum''s antiquities were acquired legally with the full knowledge of the Cypriot Government and that there were documented visits to the museum by Cypriot dignitaries.

Literature

Compare E. Gjerstad, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol.IV, part 2: The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical Period (Stockholm, 1948), fig.XII, no.5

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