A Messapian trozella, the bulbous body with painted panels, side A: two deer(?) on either side of a tree, side B: large rosette and palm branch, the high handles with pairs of discs attached -- 12¾in. (32.4cm.) high, late 4th-early 3rd Century B.C.

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A Messapian trozella, the bulbous body with painted panels, side A: two deer(?) on either side of a tree, side B: large rosette and palm branch, the high handles with pairs of discs attached -- 12¾in. (32.4cm.) high, late 4th-early 3rd Century B.C.
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Provenance
Lt. Gen. A. H. L. F. Pitt-Rivers Collection: "From the sale of Prince Napoleon after the Siege of Paris. The fellow vase was bought for the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg". Purchased at Sotheby's, February 1888

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