Greek, An Attic black-glazed amphoriskos, Classical Period, late 5th - early 4th century BC

Greek

An Attic black-glazed amphoriskos, Classical Period, late 5th - early 4th century BC

Pottery

Height: 12.2 cm

£ 3,500.00

Greek, An Attic black-glazed amphoriskos, Classical Period, late 5th - early 4th century BC

The body black glazed, with impressed palmette decoration above and below encircling bands, twin handles at the shoulder and a small stepped foot.

Provenance

Collection of Professor Ernst August Cornelius (1898-1983), reputedly acquired in Berlin in 1957

Private collection, Northern Germany, acquired from the above

Literature

Such miniature vessels would have been used for oils and perfumes. For the form see, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 19.192.72; also British Museum, acc. no. 1864,1007.1623.

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