AN ATTIC POTTERY FIGURAL ASKOS

CIRCA 440-430 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC POTTERY FIGURAL ASKOS
CIRCA 440-430 B.C.
In the form of a duck, its wings folded against the side of the body, its head bent down, the bill against its chest, the vessel mouth with cylindrical neck emerging from the top of its tail, the handle arching, details of bill, eyes and wings indicated in black
4 ¼ in. (11.4 cm.) long

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland, acquired 1980s.
with Galerie am Museum Jürgen Haering, Freiburg.
Prof. H.-H. Heissmeyer collection, Schwäbisch Hall, acquired from the above in 1995 (inv. no. 12).
Beazley Archive no. 9024867.

Literature

Vasen, 2008, no. 27 and Vases, 2015, p. 85, no. 28.

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Lot Essay

For a similar duck vessel cf. E. Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Mainz, 1982, p. 202, no. 136. According to Simon, "vessels of this kind were gifts, and the perfumed oil which they contained may well have been of higher value than the receptacles themselves".

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