CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
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A Rhodian Wild Goat style pottery oinochoe
Circa 7th Century B.C.
The round-mouthed vessel with biconical body and unusual double strap handle decorated with brownish-orange cross-hatched diamonds. The upper body with a panelled frieze showing two grazing goats, each with long ribbed horns and elongated necks, legs and bodies ornamented with cross-hatching. Each animal flanking a central oval motif with dotted border and central cross-and-dot, the whole field exuberantly filled with a multitude of linear motifs including bivalve shells, chevrons, circles, dots, scrolls, wavy lines and zigzags. Above the main frieze, a border of short tongues and another with scrolls terminating in circles infilled with dot-and-cross motifs and chevrons between. The lower body with thick encircling brownish-orange bands, similar glaze on the upper and interior neck, rim, underside of handles and a triangular wedge under the handles on the main body frieze, rim repaired
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high
Circa 7th Century B.C.
The round-mouthed vessel with biconical body and unusual double strap handle decorated with brownish-orange cross-hatched diamonds. The upper body with a panelled frieze showing two grazing goats, each with long ribbed horns and elongated necks, legs and bodies ornamented with cross-hatching. Each animal flanking a central oval motif with dotted border and central cross-and-dot, the whole field exuberantly filled with a multitude of linear motifs including bivalve shells, chevrons, circles, dots, scrolls, wavy lines and zigzags. Above the main frieze, a border of short tongues and another with scrolls terminating in circles infilled with dot-and-cross motifs and chevrons between. The lower body with thick encircling brownish-orange bands, similar glaze on the upper and interior neck, rim, underside of handles and a triangular wedge under the handles on the main body frieze, rim repaired
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high