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
$750.00
Light orange-brown clay with deeper red-orange surface wash. Black glaze all over, except for the bottom of bowl, upper and inside of stem and underside of foot. Rounded shallow bowl, incurved at top; outcurved rim, stemmed trumpet-shape foot with narrow stem and thick rounded edge. Moulding at junction of foot and bowl, thin band in black. Two ?-shaped handles with round cross-section applied horizontally below rim, lifting up to rim level. Thin band in black on underside of foot. Body mended. Lime deposits on inside foot.
H. 3.3″ (8.4 cm), D. 5″(12.7 cm).
For similar see: 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, 93-97. Palmer H. Corinth XIII. Princeton, N.J., pls.45,47,48,51; Hayes. J. W. Greek and Italian Black-Gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, 1984, cat. 35.