A Cypriot bichrome ware pottery jug
Iron Age, cira 1050-900 B.C.
With a dot and circle bird's eye to either side of the trefoil lip, the body decorated with chevron and arrow motifs and two swastikas, the handle with ladder pattern with a painted curled 'tail' at the base, a Cypriot lead export bulla attached, 19.5cm high注脚Provenance:
Alfred de la Penha (d.1953) collection, inv. no. 203 (recorded on underside).
Japanese art market, early 1980s.

There is a similar 'bird-jug' from the Cesnola Collection, with arrow and swastika motifs in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 74.51.738