CYPRIOT DISH WITH RED PAINTED DECORATION

Ca. 700 - 400 BC. A terracotta dish of shallow hemispherical form on a low ring foot, with a plain rim and a pair of opposed horizontal handles projecting from the sides. The interior is decorated in red with concentric circles: one framing the rim, a second mid-field, and a central ring. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 66.11.8; The British Museum, Museum number 1856,1208.57. Size: 50mm x 180mm; Weight: 170g Private London collection; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; originally in the collection of R Verbruggen, Brussels 1990’s.