Athenian Geometric Kylix with aquatic birds
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Object number
AR3154
| Object: |
Kylix or skyphos (bowl used for drinking wine)
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| Material: |
Red clay with black painting
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| Date: |
Third quarter 8th century B.C. Late Geometric |
| Description: |
Deep bowl with ring-shaped base and two small horizontal handles. Decorated inside with a frieze of aquatic birds, lines above and below, central rosette. On the outsides double bands and dotted rosettes. |
| Size: |
Diameter 175 mm with and 143 mm without handles. Height 58 mm.
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| Condition: |
Professionally restored from several fragments, only very minor parts reconstructed to stabilize the vessel. Some chips at lip. The original painting is widely preserved.
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| References: |
For shape and exterior part of bowl, see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 4, Pl. 41.1-2 For the decoration inside the bowl, see: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Munich, Museum Antiker Kleinkunst 3, Pl. 124.1-2 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, Pl. 3.3-4 |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2021 from Mr. M.B., Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, who acquired the bowl and other objects from the collection of M.T., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. Inherited from his parents who acquired the object in Germany in the 1960s. A note from the antiquities dealer Dr. Kurt Deppert, "Kunstwerke der Antike", Frankfurt am Main, dated February 08, 1968, sets the terminus ante quem the object was acquired into the collection T. Dr. Deppert was requested by the family T. to provide a short assessment of the collection, which he did along with a detailed description of all objects.
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| Authenticity: |
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