Bidspirit auction | Red Polished Black Top Ware

Red Polished Black Top Ware 'Tulip' Bowl with Animals - Early Cypriot I-II Period, 2300-2100 B.C. Mammiform bowl with deep body and pointed base; two vertical concave lugs, one of which is pierced; fired black above and in the interior, and red below, all decorated with white lime-filled zigzags and circles on the body, with semicircles at the rim; repaired. Cf. similar item in the British Museum, London, under accession no.1939,0217.11. 426 grams, 17 cm wide (6 3/4 in.). From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. [No Reserve]