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Apulian oinochoe - Gnathia pottery

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AR2257
Object: Apulian oinochoe

Material: Red clay with black slip, painted in white and yellow.
So-called Gnathia pottery

Date 2nd half 4th - 1st half 3rd century BC
Early Hellenistic epoch

Description:    Pear-shaped jug with ring-shaped base and flat-convex handle. Short neck opening into a trefoil-shaped mouth.
The body is painted with a vine branch.

Size: Height 115 mm

Condition: Very well preserved, delicate piece of ancient art. Slip worn, but the original painting is still partially preserved. Sticker "72B Gnathia IO" from Davies Antiques.

Reference: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Cambridge (MA) Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections Pl. 36.1

Provenance: Acquired 2017 from the German private collection M. Voos, inherited in this from the German private collection H. Herbst. Acquired for the Herbst collection in 1978 at Davies Antiques Gallery, London (copy of the invoice is at hand).

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