Details

LOT 0566

Etruscan Bucchero Sottile Kotyle

LATE 7TH CENTURY B.C.

4 1/8 in. (213 grams, 10.5 cm high).

A bucchero sottile kotyle, a deep drinking vessel of early type, decorated with a rouletted fan pattern above, incised triangles radiating from the base, with panels of geometric line decoration to the centre; skyphos-like handles to either side; some restoration.

Provenance

American collector before 2000.
Property of a Spanish gentleman.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.

Accompanied by a copy of a Spanish cultural export licence.

Literature

Cf. National Museums Liverpool, accession number 1981.1112.26, Kotyle 630-600 B.C.; Rasmussen, T.B., Bucchero pottery from Southern Etruria,, Cambridge University Press, 1979, no.122, for the type.

Footnotes

This vessel was likely to have been made in a workshop in Cerveteri, belonging to the category of the so-called bucchero sottile, (thin bucchero, 675-625 B.C.) although some were produced at Tarquinia, and many distributed as far as Carthage and beyond. Decoration of this kind of kotyles (Rasmussen type c) are composed of simple groups of horizontal and vertical lines. Closed fans, whether horizontal or vertical, may be included at handle-level, below the usual pair of lines below the rim.