Lot Essay
Cf. S. Cassani (ed.), The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000 to 300 B.C., Naples, 1993, p. 304, no. 197 for a similarly decorated amphora.
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575-525 B.C.
Details
A PEUCETIAN POTTERY STAMNOS
575-525 B.C.
With everted lip and twin false spouts with funnel-shaped mouths, decorated in dark brown, each side with a central 'metope' infilled with a swastika, and friezes of dotted 'castellated' meander, arcs and stripes, minor repair
9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) high
575-525 B.C.
With everted lip and twin false spouts with funnel-shaped mouths, decorated in dark brown, each side with a central 'metope' infilled with a swastika, and friezes of dotted 'castellated' meander, arcs and stripes, minor repair
9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Desmond Morris collection; acquired during the 1970s.
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