LATE GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA 720 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC POTTERY PITCHER
LATE GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA 720 B.C.
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Reichelt Collection, Wiesbaden, acquired in Uruguay, 1960s.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 1995 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 11, no. 163; 1995 calendar, ill. front cover).
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1997, lot 306.

Exhibited

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June-December 2001.

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Lot Essay

As is typical of the period, the surface of this pitcher is completely covered with geometric ornament, including a band of hatched meander on the body and complex hatched meander on the neck. Within two panels on the shoulders there is a horse in profile standing before a tripod. For the type, see figs. 35a & f in J.N. Coldstream, Geometric Greece.

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