Bidspirit auction | Phoenician Shipwreck Pottery Amphora

Phoenician Shipwreck Pottery Amphora - Iron Age, 1050-850 B.C. With small looped side handles, short sloping shoulder and ring neck, slender body tapering to a pointed base. Cf. Markoe, G. E., Peoples of the Past: Phoenicians, Berkeley, 2000, fig.65a, p.162. 7.35 kg total, 61 cm high including stand (24 in.). Ex old Lebanese collection imported into Germany in the middle of the 1970s.Acquired Bonhams, London, 20 October 2005, no.413 (part).Property of a North London collector, acquired from a Cambridgeshire gentleman in 2007.Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.Accompanied by a previous owner's certificate of authenticity.