Lot Essay
The Etruscan olpe not illustrated.
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PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION
A ROMAN BRONZE TREFOIL OINOCHOE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN BRONZE TREFOIL OINOCHOE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
The ovoid body on a flat separately-made base, with two lathe-turned rings above the rounded shoulders at the base of the neck, the separately-cast arching handle with an incised pattern along its length, terminating below in a female mask between fanning palmettes, with straight locks framing her face, a diadem above the thick bangs, the upper-end of the handle with a frontal-facing female protome, her arms extending along the trefoil mouth, terminating in rotellae; together with an Etruscan bronze olpe, circa 5th century B.C.
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
The ovoid body on a flat separately-made base, with two lathe-turned rings above the rounded shoulders at the base of the neck, the separately-cast arching handle with an incised pattern along its length, terminating below in a female mask between fanning palmettes, with straight locks framing her face, a diadem above the thick bangs, the upper-end of the handle with a frontal-facing female protome, her arms extending along the trefoil mouth, terminating in rotellae; together with an Etruscan bronze olpe, circa 5th century B.C.
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Mrs. Edith Hafter-Kottman (1907-1997), Zurich; thence by descent.
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