CIRCA 9TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

A VILLANOVAN IMPASTO HUT URN
CIRCA 9TH CENTURY B.C.
11 3/8 in. (29.4 cm.) long

Provenance

Swiss private collection.
Acquired from the above in 1991.

Literature

J. Chamay, The Art of the Italic Peoples, 3000-300 B.C., Geneva, 1993, no. 8.

Exhibited

Musée Rath, Geneva, 6 November 1993 – 13 February 1994; Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris 1 March – 30 April 1994.

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Lot Essay

These burial urns in the shape of early 9th-8th Century Etruscan hut houses had a particular symbolic function: the deceased would live on forever in a house where they had lived their life. For a similar example with suspension poles extending past the roof line, see Dr. F. Buranelli, The Etruscans - Legacy of a Lost Civilization, Memphis, 1992, p. 41, no. 2.

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