A SICILIAN POTTERY FIGURAL ASKOS

CIRCA 5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

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A SICILIAN POTTERY FIGURAL ASKOS
CIRCA 5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a boar with ridged bristles on the head and neck, pointed ears and short tusks, the eyes and nostrils indented, the short forelegs extended, the hind legs forming loops, the vessel mouth and two suspension loops protruding from the back, the tapered spout projecting from the rump, the tail curled back onto its left hindquarter
7½ in. (19 cm.) long

Provenance

with Harlan J. Berk, Chicago, 1992 (Ancient Art, no. 70).
American Private Collection, 1994.

Lot Essay

For related examples in the form of a ram, a cow and a mouse see nos. 123-125 respectively in Kozloff, ed., Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, where DePuma informs that "these vases may have dispensed ointments although their tapered spouts seem better suited to feeding young children."

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