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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Greek, An Attic pottery tankard, Late Geometric IIB, circa 8th century BC

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An Attic pottery tankard, Late Geometric IIB, circa 8th century BC
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Height: 10.4 cm
£ 1,500.00
Greek, An Attic pottery tankard, Late Geometric IIB, circa 8th century BC
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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...
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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.
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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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