Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$1,000.00
Fine light tan clay; semi-lustrous black gloss. Body and foot black except for: panels behind handles, inner faces of handles; outside and resting area of the foot. Thin red wash on reserved areas. Deep round form body with flat offset external rim-band; wide convex offset rim-band on inside. Low heavy foot with groove in black. Inner face black, two small concentrical circles at the center of the underside. Two ?-shaped handles with round cross-section applied horizontally below rim-band, lifting up to rim level. Broken in half, mended.
H. 3.4″ (8.6 cm), D. 6.6″(16.8 cm).
Sparkes B.A, Talcott L. The Athenian Agora XII, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C. 2 vol., Princeton, N.J., 1970, no 573.