Description:
This is a large and very elegant Etruscan beaked oinochoe (a jug used to pour wine). This larger than usual vessel is black-coloured has a wonderful shape. One of the previous owners even compared it to a belly dancer(!). In some aspects of its shape it resembles a modern work of art, but it is an authentic ancient object, that will display wonderfully! Quite an attractive vase.
For parallels with similar shape see the Ure Museum of the University of Reading, United Kingdom (accession number 50.4.5); Warsaw, Poland, National Museum (inventory numbers 140371, 147140, 198097, 198099, 198102, 198103, 198542, 198543).
Literature:
John W. Hayes, Greek and Italian Black-Gloss and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum: A Catalogue (Toronto, 1984);
Tom B. Rasmussen, Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria (Cambridge, 1979);
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Warsaw, Musée National Fascicule 6, 51-53, pl. (425) 49.1-4, pl. (426) 50.1 and pl. (427) 51.1-4.
Dating:
Circa 350 B.C.
Size:
Height 26,9 cm.
Provenance:
Private Dutch collection, acquired from Kunsthandel Mieke Zilverberg, Amsterdam (member of the IADAA) in the early 1990s.
Condition:
A few tiny chips to the base, some scratches and wear, resulting in some loss of the black colour, as is customary with ancient vases; handle professionally reattached, almost impossible to see; else intact.
Price:
€ 2,950
Stock number:
C0491