This lot from the Cyprus Museum of Jacksonville, NC is accompanied by two documents demonstrating that the collection was acquired legally with the full knowledge of the Cypriot Government.

The first document, a one page official message dated January 1990 and signed by Cypriot President George Vassiliou, praises the North Carolina museum and endorses its cultural and historic mission.

The second document is a notarized affidavit signed by the museum's director. It declares that all of the museum's antiquities were acquired legally with the full knowledge of the Cypriot Government and that there were documented visits to the museum by Cypriot dignitaries.

Three Diminutive Cypriot Hellenistic Bottles, One Ex. Morris Collection, to include a juglet (4.25 in.) (missing handle; chips); unguentarium with red banded decoration (3.75 in.) (small chip to base; encrustations); gray juglet (3 3/8 in.) (repaired from fragments).

Largest 4.25 in.

A Single-Owner Collection of Cypriot History & Culture from The Cyprus Museum of Jacksonville, North Carolina

The juglet lacking handle is from the Desmond Morris Collection via a group lot sold by Christie's.