A BOEOTIAN POTTERY BOWL
A BOEOTIAN POTTERY BOWL

CIRCA 560-540 B.C.

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A BOEOTIAN POTTERY BOWL
CIRCA 560-540 B.C.
On a low foot, with four loop handles around the rim, the exterior in black and red with a frieze of five outline-drawn birds, each with broad wings filled with hatching, rendered upside down, two columns of geometric ornament in between, bands of zig-zag above and below, a band of cross-hatched diamonds above the foot, zig-zag along the rim, short lines on the handle and concentric bands on the interior, the underside of the foot with a star enclosed by zigzag


8 3/8 in. (21 cm.) diameter, excluding handles
Provenance
Dr. Kendrick Pritchett (1909-2007), former Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of California, Berkeley, acquired by the 1960s.

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For a related example see no. 43 in A. Pasquier and V. Jeammet, Tanagra, Mythe et archéologie.

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