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Lot Essay
Item two: cf. S. Cassani (ed.), The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000 to 300 B.C., Naples, 1993, no. 209 for an olla with similar lozenge decoration.
Details
A DAUNIAN POTTERY JAR
600-550 B.C.
With broad horizontal rim, the high strap handle triangular at the front, finely decorated in red and dark brown with bands and stripes, the body with 'metopes' of cross-hatched lozenges and dots, the handle with dotted chequerboard diamonds, a six-lined cross on the base, repaired; and a pottery askos, the bulbous body with short cylindrical vertical spout and wide horizontal rim, with high arching strap handle, painted in dark brown and red, bands around the body with frieze of hatching, a 'metope' on the spout's neck with a lozenge infilled with chequerboard stripes and dots, arcs on the rim, concentric circles around the middle body, 550-500 B.C.
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) and 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high respectively (2)
600-550 B.C.
With broad horizontal rim, the high strap handle triangular at the front, finely decorated in red and dark brown with bands and stripes, the body with 'metopes' of cross-hatched lozenges and dots, the handle with dotted chequerboard diamonds, a six-lined cross on the base, repaired; and a pottery askos, the bulbous body with short cylindrical vertical spout and wide horizontal rim, with high arching strap handle, painted in dark brown and red, bands around the body with frieze of hatching, a 'metope' on the spout's neck with a lozenge infilled with chequerboard stripes and dots, arcs on the rim, concentric circles around the middle body, 550-500 B.C.
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) and 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high respectively (2)
Provenance
Acquired during the 1970s.
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