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A TRANSITIONAL CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON, BY THE ARDEA PAINTER
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A TRANSITIONAL CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON, BY THE ARDEA PAINTER

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD BETWEEN PROTOCORINTHIAN AND CORINTHIAN, 640-625 B.C.

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A TRANSITIONAL CORINTHIAN POTTERY ALABASTRON, BY THE ARDEA PAINTER
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD BETWEEN PROTOCORINTHIAN AND CORINTHIAN, 640-625 B.C.
The body with two confronting bulls, dots and circular infill motifs in the field, a line above and below the scene, finely painted tongues around base, neck and rim, the latter with dots around the edge
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Basle, 1981.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, Berkeley, 1988, p. 52, no. A-9; C. W. Neeft, Addenda and Corrigenda to Amyx [above], (Allard Pierson Series - Scripta Minora, 3), Amsterdam, 1991, p. 21; and American Journal of Archaeology, 85 (1981) 2, p. 172.

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