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LOT 0069

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,755

ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA BUCCHERO OINOCHOE WITH INCISED ANIMALS
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
10 in. (740 grams, 25.5 cm).

With shoulder and belly encircled by two notched ribs, by two friezes with later carefully-incised, elongated animals (stag, snake, winged panther, horse, lion), restored.

PROVENANCE:
Late W.H. collection.
With Kunst der Antike, Munich, Germany, 1977.
Ex Gorny & Mosch, 16 December 2008, lot 261.
with Artemission, London, UK.
Property of a South Australian private collector, with collection reference 21.09.

Accompanied by detailed collector's catalogue pages including description and photograph.

LITERATURE:
Cf. no.229 in Jucker, Italy of the Etruscans, p.183. Jucker notes that the vessel comes from a workshop probably located in Cerveteri (or Veii) from which several works are known; for the workshop, see Bonamici, M., I buccheri con figurazioni graffite, 1974, 131 pl.33, no.72; pls.40 f., no.80; CVA France 31, 63f. pl.22,1-4.

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