CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE OINOCHOE
CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Eric de Kolb (1916-2001), New York, acquired by 1967.
Henri E. Smeets, Weert, The Netherlands, acquired by 1975.
The Smeets Collection of Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 7 November 1977, lot 169.
with K.J. Hewett (1919-1994), London.
Agatha (1924-2015) and Charles (d. 2003) Sadler, U.K., acquired from the above.
The Sadler Collection, Sotheby's, London, 31 October 2003, lot 43.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XX, 2009, no. 44; vol. XXX, 2019, no. 24).

Literature

D.G. Mitten and S.F. Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, Mainz, 1967, p. 221, no. 224.
E. Godet, et al., A Private Collection: A Catalogue of The Henri Smeets Collection, Weert, 1975, no. 213.

Exhibited

Cambridge, The Fogg Art Museum; City Art Museum of Saint Louis; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, 4 December 1967-30 June 1968.

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Lot Essay

This unusual vessel has a carinated body, with finely engraved ornamental bands of guilloche and wave pattern. The base is cast with and egg-and-dart molding. The handle is in the form of a nude female figure leaning in a relaxed pose against the rim, with a bandolier worn diagonally over her left shoulder. On her body is a retrograde vertical inscription in dotted letters, “udai,” continuing horizontally on the vessel below, “suth[i]na,” which, taken together, reads “votive of Udai.”

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