Etruscan
An Etrusco-Corinthian black-figure pottery olpe, attributed to the Rosoni Painter, circa 580 - 570 BC
Pottery
Height: 32.5 cm
Further images
The body with three registers of animals including six swans, three panthers with their heads turned frontal, a boar, and stag with large antlers, both with their heads lowered, rosettes...
The body with three registers of animals including six swans, three panthers with their heads turned frontal, a boar, and stag with large antlers, both with their heads lowered, rosettes with alternate petals of red and black in the field, four groups of vertical petals above the foot, a moulded ring where neck joins body, three white-dotted rosettes on the neck and one on the rim at join with ribbed handle, a star rosette on each rotelle, rim interior with red and white painted bands
Provenance
Christie’s, London, 1979With Charles Ede Limited, London, 1979
Christie's, South Kensington, 25 October 2006, lot 95
UK private collection
Publications
Charles Ede Limited, London, Etruscan Pottery, 1979, no. 24J.-Gy. Szilagyi, 'Ceramica etrusco-corinzia figurata. Parte II, 590/580-550 a.C.' Monumenti etruschi 8, Firenze, 1998, 344, no. 162, Tav. CXLIV.c