SOUTH ITALY, CIRCA 320-290 B.C.

Details

A GREEK BLACK-GLAZED BOAR ASKOS
SOUTH ITALY, CIRCA 320-290 B.C.

6 ¼ in. (16 cm.) long

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1984, lot 337.
Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, Bern, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

For another Apulian boar shaped askos, unglazed but for the handle, cf. Rhode Island School of Design Museum inv. no. 1996.98. This type of vase was also very popular in Southern Etruria. For an example found at Bomarzo now in the Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, inv. no. 14402, cf. F. Buranelli, The Etruscans, Memphis, 1992, p. 167, no. 149.

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