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ANE19 A Palestinian Middle Bronze Age bowl, c. 2000 - 1550 B.C. : £ 120

A Palestinian carinated bowl in coarse buff ware, measuring 70 mm/2.7 ins. high and 115 mm/4.5 ins. in diameter. Wheel marks around the body and base and minor overall surface wear, otherwise condition good. Middle Bronze Age, MBII, c. 2000 - 1550 B.C., from Jordan.
Ex Peter Negus Collection.

ANE20 A Palestinian Middle Bronze Age bowl from Haifa, Israel, c. 2000 - 1550 B.C. : £ 150

A Palestinian red pottery bowl with pad base and flared rim, measuring 100 mm/3.8 ins. high and 128 mm/5.2 ins. in diameter. Some small rim chips, inoffensive surface wear and some patches of marine encrustation below the rim. Middle Bronze Age, MBII, c. 2000 - 1550 B.C., from the Haifa area, Israel.
Ex Peter Negus Collection.

ANE21 A provenanced Anatolian jar, c. 3rd - 1st Millennium B.C. : £ 220 RESERVED

A squat Anatolian grey burnished pottery twin-handled jar with incised geometric decoration, the lines infilled with white, measuring 83 mm/3.2 ins. high and 82 mm/3.2 ins. in diameter. Some encrustation and wear particularly on the side not shown, circa 3rd - 1st Millennium B.C.
Excavated at Ak Hissar (E/NE of Ismir, Turkey) and given to a private collector by Gabriel Couteaux in Istanbul in December 1966.

Records exist of a maritime agent and ship's captain called Gabriel Couteaux (1896-1981) who was resident in Istanbul and he may have been the source of this antiquity.

ANE22 A Palestinian Early Bronze Age pottery jar, c. 2300 B.C. : £ 160

A two-handled bulbous red ware pottery jar, with short cylindrical neck, measuring 140 mm/5.3 ins. high. A single line of moulded pellet decoration below the rim. A few small rim chips, some wear to the red slip but otherwise in good condition. Early Bronze Age, EBIV, c. 2300 B.C.
Ex Peter Negus Collection.

ANE23 A Syrian terracotta tall-necked quadraped, c. 1st Millennium B.C. : £ 185

A Syrian fawn terracotta tall-necked quadraped with stylised arching ears, pierced circular eyes and an applied brow band measuring 2.8 ins./65 mm in length and standing 2.9 ins./75 mm high. Some worn red slip remaining, some restoration to the legs and neck, but an attractive example. c. 1st Millennium B.C.
Previously property of a Dutch private collector who acquired the piece in the 1970's from a London auction house.

ANE24 An unusual Palestinian Early Bronze Age pottery bowl, c. 3100 - 2800 B.C. : £ 150

A good-sized unusual Palestinian orange ware single handled pottery bowl with small pad base, measuring 90 mm/3.5 ins. high and 145 mm/5.7 ins. in diameter. A single line of pricked decoration below the rim, the bowl in good condition. Early Bronze Age, c. 3100 - 2800 B.C.
Ex Peter Negus Collection.



ANE19: £120

ANE20: £150


ANE21: £220

ANE22: £160


ANE23: £185

ANE24: £150




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