CIRCA LATE 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.

Details

A CANOSAN POTTERY FIGURAL OINOCHOE
CIRCA LATE 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
14 3⁄8 in. (36.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.
Louis Beck (1923-1987), New York, acquired from the above, 1981.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2006; 2016 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XXVII, no. 112).
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2006.

Literature

M.E. Mayo, ed., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, 1982, p. 301, no. 155.

Exhibited

Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Tulsa, The Philbrook Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, 12 May 1982-10 April 1983.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

As F. van der Wielen-van Ommeren notes (in M. Mayo, ed., op. cit.), this vase “belongs to the initial phase of the polychrome ceramic production of Canosa, the products of which are of very fine quality and display rich polychromy.”

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