Description:

Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful and sizeable double askos, a vessel with a round body and twin spouts joined by a wide double cylindrical handle in the center. One of the spouts has a pierced sprinkler. These vessels were produced especially for funerary purposes, and many have been found in the chambered tombs dug out of the bedrock that surrounds Canosa. The entire body - including both spouts and handles - was meticulously decorated with hand painted abstract geometric motifs featuring registers of repeating spiders, waves, net patterns, rope patterns, meander/Greek key, and more. Size: 8.75" W x 8.75" H (22.2 cm x 22.2 cm)

Canosa, or Canosion as it was known then, was a major center of the ceramics and pottery trade when it was a Greek polis. It produced truly unique pottery, completely different in decorative painting technique from earlier and neighboring traditions, as the decoration is applied directly to the form without the use of slip.

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Ancient Art International, Vero Beach, Florida, USA

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#140388

  • Condition: Open spout repaired from multiple pieces. Upper section repaired at the shoulder. Surface chips and abrasions at lower ends of one spout.

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