A large Corinthian pottery oinochoe, with trefoil mouth and high grooved handle, the handle with rotellae at the rim, the body decorated with a central frieze divided into two registers showing encircling bands of boars, panthers, sirens, geese, grazing deer, and a bull being attacked by lions, the shoulder with polychrome scale decoration, rays above and around the base, white dotted rosettes on the neck, decoration very finely incised but worn, repaired with damage -- 10½in. (26.8cm.) high, late Protocorinthian, 650-625 B.C.

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A large Corinthian pottery oinochoe, with trefoil mouth and high grooved handle, the handle with rotellae at the rim, the body decorated with a central frieze divided into two registers showing encircling bands of boars, panthers, sirens, geese, grazing deer, and a bull being attacked by lions, the shoulder with polychrome scale decoration, rays above and around the base, white dotted rosettes on the neck, decoration very finely incised but worn, repaired with damage -- 10½in. (26.8cm.) high, late Protocorinthian, 650-625 B.C.

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