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A SICILIAN POTTERY ASKOS IN THE FORM OF A MOUSE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE RANDAZZO GROUP

CIRCA 450-410 B.C.

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A SICILIAN POTTERY ASKOS IN THE FORM OF A MOUSE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE RANDAZZO GROUP
CIRCA 450-410 B.C.
The crouching mouse with black painted details, an octopus on each side with unfurled tentacles, an oblique spout on rump and round mouth on centre back, flanked by two small suspension lugs
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) long

来源

Galerie Arete, Zurich.

注意事项

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拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1981, I, no. 125; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 65.

For a similar mouse askos attributed to the Randazzo Group in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, cf. J. M. Padgett et al., Vase Painting in Italy, Boston, 1993, p. 187, no. 106, where it suggests that these askoi were used as feeding bottles.