Lot Essay
Item two: cf. M. E. Mayo (ed.), The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1982, p. 294, no. 147 for similar.
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3RD CENTURY B.C., CANOSA
Details
A DAUNIAN POTTERY QUADRUPLE SITULA
3RD CENTURY B.C., CANOSA
The four conjoined ovoid jars with central looped handle, painted in red and dark brown, with bands, running scrolls and chevrons, each jar with a star on the base, traces of pink colour, one jar repaired; and a pottery askos, the body with tall vertical cylindrical neck, arching strap handle and pinched 'duck-tail', painted in dark brown and reddish-brown, with bands, a frieze of wavy line and offset striations around the middle body, a 'fir-tree' motif flanked by offset striations on the spout's neck, circa first half of 4th Century B.C.
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) and 5½ in. (14 cm.) high respectively (2)
3RD CENTURY B.C., CANOSA
The four conjoined ovoid jars with central looped handle, painted in red and dark brown, with bands, running scrolls and chevrons, each jar with a star on the base, traces of pink colour, one jar repaired; and a pottery askos, the body with tall vertical cylindrical neck, arching strap handle and pinched 'duck-tail', painted in dark brown and reddish-brown, with bands, a frieze of wavy line and offset striations around the middle body, a 'fir-tree' motif flanked by offset striations on the spout's neck, circa first half of 4th Century B.C.
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) and 5½ in. (14 cm.) high respectively (2)
Provenance
Acquired during the 1970s.
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Sale room notice
The illustration for this lot on page 47, numbered as 97 on the far right of the illustration, should be numbered as 91.