Cypriot Bronze Age Large Polished Red Ware Bowl With Spout

This lot from the Cyprus Museum of Jacksonville, NC is accompanied by two documents demonstrating 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.

Cypriot Bronze Age Large Polished Red Ware Bowl With Spout, circa 2000 B.C., wide mouth with sides tapering downward, spout to front with decorative lug handle on the back.

12.5 in. height; bowl rim 12 in. diameter

A Single-Owner Collection of Cypriot History & Culture from The Cyprus Museum of Jacksonville, North Carolina

Scuffs and light deposits; minor rim chips; slip worn at rim of spout.