A Cycladic marble kandila

A Cycladic marble kandila
Early Cycladic I, circa 3200-2800 B.C.
The rounded body set on a flaring foot with circular indentation on the underside of the base, with four protruding pierced lug handles, and a broad upright rim, 12.5cm high

Provenance:
Private collection, Europe, acquired ca. 1980s.
with Safani Gallery Inc., New York.
with Arte Classica Bader Koller, Lugano, acquired from the above 8 November 2010.
Private collection, Europe.

For further examples see J. Thimme, Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C., Chicago, 1977, pp. 310-312.