CIRCA 700 B.C.

Details

A GREEK ISLAND ORIENTALIZING POTTERY OINOCHOE
CIRCA 700 B.C.
With trefoil lip, the body with central frieze of animals including horses and a winged quadruped, dotted rosettes, swastikas, crosses, dotted squares, circles and diamond pattern in the field, band of elongated triangles and dotted rosettes below, a band of broken cable above, a band of rays with central flower on the shoulder, the neck decorated with frieze of two facing cockerels, wavy lines, swastikas, dotted rosettes in the field, rays around foot, handle with broken cable pattern, details incised and in added red, repaired lip and foot
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

Provenance

C. Bernoulli collection, Switzerland; acquired in 1959 from Dr Eli Borowski, Basel.

Exhibited

Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, Kunsthalle Basel, June - September 1960.
Das Tier in der Antike, Archäologischen Institut der Universität, Zurich, September - November 1974.
On loan to the Antikenmuseum, Basel, 1961-2005.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
K. Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, Basel, 1960, pp. 131 and 134, no. 83.
Das Tier in der Antike, Zurich, 1974, pp. 34-35, pl. 33, no. 199.
J. Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting, London, 1998, pp. 109 and 122, fig. 230 for this oinochoe from Skyros. Boardman comments that "Skyros ... yielded a group of vases representing a short-lived Orientalizing style with touches of black figure, like a cross between Cycladic and Protocorinthian."

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