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LOT 0565
Villanovan Terracotta Impasto Kyathos
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
5 1/2 in. (286 grams, 14 cm wide).
Blackware vessel with carination to the squat body, deep shoulder and rolled rim, low foot, single upstanding strap handle to the rear with split at the junction with the mouth.
ProvenanceEx Haynault Ventes Publiques Auction, Uccle, Belgium, 21 September, 2021, no.30.
Property of a South Australian private collector, with collection reference 21.102.
Accompanied by a collector's catalogue page including description and image.
See Rasmussen, Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria, p.116, pl.36.
FootnotesVillanovan culture is often regarded as the earliest phase of Etruscan civilisation in the Iron Age.
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