Lot 28
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Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 800 to 700 BCE. A nicely-detailed black kyathos, a single-handled dipper that stands on a diminutive, disc-shaped base. Around the corseted area where the lower body meets the neck is a fine incised pattern that looks like a twisted rope. This is a very early example of a vessel shape that would later become highly refined by the Etruscans and then the Greeks, and the handle here, which in later versions towered high above the body of the vessel, is small and looped. This handle, unusually, has a yannic form. The body is made of impasto, a coarse earthenware that is a precursor to Etruscan Bucchero. Size: 6.5" W x 4.5" H (16.5 cm x 11.4 cm)
The Villanovans inhabited Italy during the early Iron Age, and much of what we know of them comes from excavations of cemeteries (the first at Villanova near Bologna in northern Italy) where they cremated the dead and buried them in pottery urns in a very distinctive, double-cone shape. In the 8th century, Greek colonists arrived in the region, and began to influence Villanovan ceramics and their forms, as with this kyathos.
Provenance: private Carlton Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA acquired between 1965 and 1980
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- Condition: Repaired from multiple pieces. Nice remaining decorative details.
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