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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,750
6TH CENTURY BC
15 1/4" (2.15 kg, 39cm).
A large ceramic black-glazed bucchero oinochoe with wide mouth pinched to the front and sieve at the lip; tubular neck with thin collars at junction; shoulder decorated with repeating pattern of scrolling lotus flowers, one with scrolling figure-of-eight pattern; central part of bulbous body delineated by ribs and decorated with a frieze of warriors in helmets and carrying swords and large shields, advancing horses and lotus flowers; applied strap handle decorated with column of lotus flowers within a frame; tall incised triangles to the lower body; wide foot with gusset to the rim.
PROVENANCE:
Property of a European gentleman living in London; previously from a German collection formed in the early 1980s. Accompanied by a copy of a thermoluminescence test certificate no.N117a80 by Oxford Authentication Ltd.
LITERATURE:
See Perkins, P. Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum, London, 2007.
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