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LOT 0039
Large Greek Black-Glazed Trefoil-Lipped Oinochoe
APULIA, 5TH CENTURY B.C.
8 3/4 in. (405 grams, 22.1 cm).
With a trefoil mouth, an applied D-section handle and a tiered foot.
ProvenanceProperty from a private collection.
with Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 2003, no.9.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Sotheby's catalogue pages.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession numbers 81.10.337 and 17.194.743, for similar in glass; Beazley, J.D., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Oxford, Ashmolean, Oxford, 1931, no.1.1, 34, pl.134, 42.6
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