Lot 200. An Amlash pottery anthropomorphic vessel, Circa 1st Millennium B.C. Estimate £1,500 - 2,500 (€1,700 - 2,900). Photo: Bonhams.

With swollen pear-shaped body, cylindrical neck, slightly pinched-in at the mouth with impressed 'eyes' on either side, two arms delineated with fingers applied to either side of the shoulder, a loop handle behind the neck, 23cm high

Provenance: Sam Dubiner (1914-1993) collection, Israel, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Note: This lot was featured in the short film 'Dubiner and Amlash', part of the series made in the 1970s called The Amlash Connection, written and narrated by Sam Dubiner, filmed and directed by Shlomo Soriano.