GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA 750 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC POTTERY KANTHAROS
GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA 750 B.C.
5 ½ in. (13.9 cm.) wide

Provenance

Private Collection, Tübingen, Germany, acquired in Athens prior to World War II.
Auktion 1, Kunstwerke der Antike, H.A.C., Basel, 15 June 1998, lot 11.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2015.

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Lot Essay

For a skyphos perhaps by the same hand also with a similar scene of birds drawn with reserved bodies decorated with hatching and with geometric motifs and swastikas in the field, see no. 74 in S. Langdon, ed., From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer.

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