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Large Etruscan oinochoe: Found in Cerveteri

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AR2600
Object: Large Etruscan oinochoe

Material: Orange clay with black glaze in red-figure style.

Period: Second half of 4th cent. BC.
Etruscan.

Description:    Jug with voluminous body on a narrow cylindrical foot, flat shoulder and long slightly conical neck. The handle reaches from the decorated lowered rear part of the lip to the shoulder. Body and neck are decorated by palmettes and double volutes, the shoulder by eggs and dots. The front side shows a Nike advancing to the left, lifting her chiton with the left hand. Above her on the front of the neck a temple that is not painted in full detail, with a column to its side.

Dimensions: 46 cm height, 25 cm diameter.

Condition: Reassembled from several large and many smaller fragments. The original material is almost fully preserved, no overpaintings, well done restoration. The vase is in a very good condition for a vessel of such an impressive size.

Provenance: Acquired in 2018 from the German private collection P. Schaefer. Inherited by Mr. Schaefer from his father, August Schaefer, who acquired the object for his collection end of the 1950s in Augsburg (Germany) from Dr. Bruckner. Since then the object has been located in Germany. Dr. Bruckner had acquired this piece together with other objects end of the 1950s in Sezze (Latium, Italy) from a local farmer. A tomb near Cerveteri has been passed down as the findspot of this vase.
An ArtLoss certificate for this vase is availabe.

References: Beazley shape VII, for other examples cf.:
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Tours and Bourges, Musee des beaux arts et Musee du Berry, 61, pl.20.1-2; 5;
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Paris, Musee du Louvre 22, 67-68 pl. 33.9-12
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Kiel, Kunsthalle Antikensammlung 2, 76, pl. 49.1-4
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Karl Marx Universität 2, 56, pl. 50.7-9


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