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LOT 0059
Etruscan Impasto Single-Handled Vase
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
6 3/8 in. (854 grams, 16.3 cm).
Bucchero olpe with a glossy black slip to surface, trumpet-shaped neck and mouth, loop handle to the shoulder and discoid foot, circumferential band of hatched triangles to the shoulder. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Property from the Upper East Side estate of M.H., New York, USA; a Slovak refugee who collected in the early 1980s.
Literature
Cf. Edlund, I.E.M., The Iron Age and Etruscan Vases in the Olcott Collection at Columbia University, New York, pp.28-29.
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