An ancient Cypriot large Bichrome Ware amphora decorated with geometric designs includeing a large cross-hatched diamond on each side.
Cypro-Archaic I,
Ca. 750 - 600 BC.
Height: 18 1/4 in. (46.2 cm).
cf.: V. Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection, (New York, 2000), pp. 90-91, no. 143, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 74.51.972.
Formerly in the Jerome Eisenberg collection, New York.