Lot Essay
A similar example, thought to be of Caeretan manufacture, is in the Museo Archeologico, Tarquinia, nos. 92 and 93 in Brendal, Etruscan Art.
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AN ETRUSCAN BUCCHERO OINOCHOE
CIRCA EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The large ovoid body molded with a frieze of eleven dancing nude youths, all moving right but looking left, gesticulating with their left arms raised, theeir right arms lowered, their long hair flowing on to their shoulders, below them a band of twelve grimacing gorgon heads, and above a band of thin vertical tongues, on a tall trumpet-shaped foot with a wide trefoil lip, the single handle molded with a large facing head where it joins the rim, with the extensions along the the rim terminating in smaller molded faces
20 1/4in. (51.4cm.) high
CIRCA EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The large ovoid body molded with a frieze of eleven dancing nude youths, all moving right but looking left, gesticulating with their left arms raised, theeir right arms lowered, their long hair flowing on to their shoulders, below them a band of twelve grimacing gorgon heads, and above a band of thin vertical tongues, on a tall trumpet-shaped foot with a wide trefoil lip, the single handle molded with a large facing head where it joins the rim, with the extensions along the the rim terminating in smaller molded faces
20 1/4in. (51.4cm.) high
Provenance
Royal-Athena Galleries, NY
Exhibited
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ in conjunction with the exhibition "The Etruscans: Legacy of a Lost Civilization," March-June 1993.