Details

LOT 0043

Large Villanovan Terracotta Impasto Kyathos

EARLY 7TH CENTURY B.C.

9 1/2 in. (1.1 kg, 24 cm).

With burnished deep brown surfaces, the body tapering to a flat foot, the shoulders decorated with vertical ribbing, short neck with flared mouth; wide openwork handle perforated with small triangles and rectangles, hatched bands along the edges of the handle and the perforations. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired from Mr Eugene Berman circa 1960.
From the private collection of Mr Ulfert Wilke.
In the collection of Dr Howard Sirak, Columbus, Ohio, USA; acquired from the above in 1969.
Ancient Resource Auctions, California, USA, May 2020.
Property of a South Australian private collector, with collection reference 20.02.

Accompanied by a detailed collector's catalogue page including description and photograph.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Published

De Puma, Etruscan and Villanovan Pottery: A Catalogue of Italian Ceramics from Midwestern Collections, no.17.

Literature

Cf. Dohan, Italic Tomb-Groups in the Pennsylvania Unversity Museum, p.83, no.7, pl.44, Vulci Tomb 51, for a smaller parallel.

Footnotes

The de Puma catalogue cites this piece as no. 5.5 from the Sirak Collection (original sticker is on base; note De Puma’s appraisal does not provide a concordance with Wilke). The catalogue was for the exhibition at the University of Iowa Museum of Art from 17 March to 30 April 1971. Richard De Puma appraised Sirak’s collection of ancient pottery on 18 September 1979; Inv. 20.02 was noted as appraisal item 15 and valued at USD 650. Old collection sticker '188' on base; overlain is sticker from Sirak collection, 'LR 3V'. Sticker 147B refers to the lot number for the first time it was offered at auction by Ancient Resource Auctions in 2015.