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THE PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
THREE ITALIC IMPASTO VESSELS
CIRCA LATE 8TH-EARLY 7TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
THREE ITALIC IMPASTO VESSELS
Circa Late 8th-Early 7th Century B.C.
Including a tripod beaker from Central Italy, the conical body fluted, the handle surmounted by a charioteer driving a biga, with rouletting at the charioteer's neck and diagonally across his back, where the horse's feet meet the rim, and at the base of the vessel neck; an amphora from South Etruria or Latium, globular in form with a tapering neck and flaring rim, the body with incised double spirals framed by sets of oblique lines, similar lines on the handles; and a beaked jug from Central Italy, perhaps Tarquinia, with a rounded body, tapering neck and beaked trefoil mouth, its rim joined to a bifurcated handle
8½ in. (21.5 cm) high for the first (3)
Circa Late 8th-Early 7th Century B.C.
Including a tripod beaker from Central Italy, the conical body fluted, the handle surmounted by a charioteer driving a biga, with rouletting at the charioteer's neck and diagonally across his back, where the horse's feet meet the rim, and at the base of the vessel neck; an amphora from South Etruria or Latium, globular in form with a tapering neck and flaring rim, the body with incised double spirals framed by sets of oblique lines, similar lines on the handles; and a beaked jug from Central Italy, perhaps Tarquinia, with a rounded body, tapering neck and beaked trefoil mouth, its rim joined to a bifurcated handle
8½ in. (21.5 cm) high for the first (3)
Provenance
Palladion Antike Kunst, Katalog 1976, nos. 4 (amphora) & 5 (beaker)
Literature
The Ancient and Modern Art in the Kurashiki Museum, pl. 58 (beaker) & pl. 35 (amphora).
Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, nos. 92 (beaker), 96 (jug) & 103 (amphora).
Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, nos. 92 (beaker), 96 (jug) & 103 (amphora).
Exhibited
The Ancient and Modern Art in the Kurashiki Museum, Tokyo (1980), (beaker and amphora).