Lot 45
  • 45

A Cycladic Marble Beaker, Early Bronze Age I, circa 3000-2800 B.C.

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • A Cycladic Marble Beaker
  • Height 8 11/16 in. 22.1 cm.
with slightly convex sides and twin pierced vertical lug handles.

Provenance

acquired in Switzerland in 1977

Condition

small chips on rim and handles, area of incrustation on one side
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Catalogue Note

For a related example, also with unusually long handles, see P. Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, Philadelphia, 1996, pl. 28d.