CIRCA 650-640 B.C.

Details

A LARGE PROTOCORINTHIAN SQUAT OLPE
CIRCA 650-640 B.C.
Decorated in black polychrome style, the wide funnel-shaped neck with twin rotelles at join of reeded handle, the body with encircling yellow lines between groups of three red lines, triangular rays above the ring foot, alternating groups of red, yellow and black tongues on the shoulder with dotted rosettes above, further rosettes on and between the rotelles, concentric rings on base, repaired with rim restoration
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high

Provenance

The Hirschmann Collection, collection no. G 61: sold Sotheby's London, 9 December 1993, lot 7.

Exhibited

Archäologische Sammlung der Universität, Zürich, November 1987 - March 1988.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
H. Bloesch (ed.), Greek Vases from the Hirschmann Collection, Zurich, 1982, pp. 18 and 94, no. 6.
D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, I, California, 1988, p. 334, no. 6, where it is noted as "Very fine work 'probably from the same hand as the Heidelberg oinochoe' listed, p. 40, no. 1, under 'Early Black-Polychrome Oinochoai'".

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