This article presents a new unpublished closed pottery group from northern Karpathos (Avlona), handed in by a private individual. It consists of fourteen tableware vessels, which clearly constituted the contents of a chamber tomb completely destroyed during the mechanical clearing of a new country road. The typological and stylistic analysis of the pottery showed that the finds probably came from two different cultural territories: Mainland (Mycenaean area) and Minoan Crete. The palatial character of another isolated find coming from the area of the harbour at Pigadia implies a special link between the Minoan centres and Karpathos, at least from the 15th century BC onwards. The presence of such an object, made without a doubt in a palatial pottery workshop, is probably related to the establishment of trade sites by the Minoans on their way to the wealth-producing centres of the East.