A red polished eartheware Cypriot vessel

Description:

Early Bronze Age, ca. 3rd millennium BC,
H,. 56,5 cm
The ovoid main body with single handle and double neck, crowned by two smaller cranes with cut-out beak extensions, with two birds connecting the cranes and lower neck, the whole decorated with white coloured incised linear patterns.
Important private collection Rhineland, acquired at Christie's London, 9.12.1992, lot 51 - Partially rest.