Description:

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 900 to 700 BCE. This is a blackware jar (impasto, a precursor to the Etruscan bucchero) with an incised geometric motif of triangles below the rim and twin symmetrical handles rising from the shoulder. Impasto is a rough, heavy, and unrefined brown clay. 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 jar. A lovely, thin-walled example of the type. Size: 6.3" W x 3.85" H (16 cm x 9.8 cm)

Provenance: ex Carlton collection, Los Angeles, California, USA, acquired between 1965 and 1980

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  • Condition: Tiny chip from rim; repaired from what appears to be two pieces, but repairs are very well done and difficult to see.

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