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LOT 0644
Greek Canosan Terracotta Oinochoe with Face
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
8 5/8 in. (446 grams, 22.2 cm high).
The body formed as a female bust with elaborately styled hair; discoid foot, tall stem with pinched rim giving a broad pouring lip, strap handle to the rear; some pigment remaining.
Provenance
Old French private collection.
Swiss private collection, Basel-Landschaft.
Private collection of M. Tritten, Binningen, Switzerland.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Frel, J., Knudsen Morgan, S., Occasional Papers on Antiquities, 3, Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, volume 2, 1985, figs.5-7, for similar.
Footnotes
The Canosan ceramic workshops produced several series of head vases, starting with a red-figure imitation of the Attic plastic oenochoe attributed by Beazley to Group N.21. The next product combined two ceramic techniques: a) the neck, mouth, and handle were executed in red-figure technique with superimposed white rays on the neck; b) the head was drawn from two moulds, mounted on a base rim, and decorated with white slip and polychrome after firing. It belongs to the initial phase of the polychrome ceramic production of Canosa, for which only this type of mould is known. It also illustrates the close collaboration which existed between potters and coroplasts. The same archetype was used in the next phase, producing entirely polychrome head vases, like this one, in which traces of polychrome are still visible on the mouth and near the left ear.
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LOT 0644
Greek Canosan Terracotta Oinochoe with Face
Estimate £800 - 1,000€930 - 1,160 (for guidance only)$1,080 - 1,350 (for guidance only)
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