ANOTHER CAERETAN POTTERY DISH

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ANOTHER CAERETAN POTTERY DISH
FIRST HALF OF 7TH CENTURY B.C.
Similar, smaller, with low foot decorated with orange linear triangles surrounded by cross-hatched triangular rays, with a frieze of five herons each with elongated curving body, pierced twice near the rim
10.7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

For a discussion of the type, cf. A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994, pp. 187-9, nos. 88-89; and I. Jucker, Italy of the Etruscans, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 204 and 211, no. 277 for similar with heron frieze.

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