Greek, An Attic pottery tankard, Late Geometric IIB, circa 8th century BC

Greek

An Attic pottery tankard, Late Geometric IIB, circa 8th century BC

Pottery

Height: 10.4 cm

£ 1,500.00

Greek, An Attic pottery tankard, Late Geometric IIB, circa 8th century BC

The vessel has a flat base, short biconical body and tall flaring neck with a high arching handle. The decoration is composed of geometric motifs in umber paint, including a...

The vessel has a flat base, short biconical body and tall flaring neck with a high arching handle. The decoration is composed of geometric motifs in umber paint, including a frieze below the rim with short double rows of zigzags interspersed with vertical strokes. There is a band around the middle of the neck with vertical zigzag motifs with triple horizontal bands above and below. At the shoulder there is a further band of overlapping zigzag with a band of dots and further horizontal bands.

Condition
Intact. General surface wear, with pitting and chipping throughout.

Provenance

American private collection, East Coast until 2018
With Cahn International AG, Basel, Switzerland
Adler Collection, Basel

Literature

For a similar form with related decoration: cf. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Berlin, Antikensammlung 10, 73, pl. 4481, 37.7-8; Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 30.118.29.

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