Bidspirit auction | Cypro-Archaic Terracotta Bird Askos

Cypro-Archaic Terracotta Bird Askos - Late Bronze Age, 1100-1000 B.C. Hollow-formed as a bird, possibly a duck, with its beak acting as a spout, small lateral flanges for wings and painted geometric detailing; strap handle from funicular filler tube with a strainer inside to the fan-shaped tail. Cf. an askos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession no.1970.11.12. 670 grams, 24 cm (9 1/2 in.). From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. [No Reserve]