Biconical early Etruscan urn with original lid
€3,000
available
Object number
AR3357
| Object: |
Urn with lid
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| Material: |
Impasto, dark clay with black slip
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| Date: |
Late 9th - 8th century B.C. Etruscan |
| Description: |
Biconical urn with handle and wide mouth. Lid shaped as a bowl with one handle, a band of small holes at rim, originally probably used to mount a decorative band made of other material. The second handle was most likely already broken in antiquity for the burial rites, see e.g. a short article on this topic by the Bologna museum. |
| Size: |
Urn: Height 41cm, diameter 24cm without handle. Lid: height 9cm, diameter 22cm without handle. Height of urn with lid 48cm.
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| Condition: |
The urn is professionally restored from fragments, missing material remodeled. One of the handles broken. The lid completely preserved, small damage at rim, stable crack from the centre of the bowl to the rim. Two extensive cleaning and restoration reports from the University of Zurich dating back to 1981 are at hand as a copy. The lid is fitting the urn perfectly and is made of the same clay with a similar patina, confirming that the two objects belonged together already in antiquity. With this, a very impressive ensemble. |
| Reference: |
See Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum 1, Pl. 42.1
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| Provenance: |
Acquired in 2022 at a Swiss auction house. Ex Swiss private collection. Ex collection of Ms. Mara Scotoni-Coppetti (1903–1978), acquired in the late 1960s. Together with other pieces of the collection the urn was presented at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Zurich in 1981 for cleaning and restoration, two reports by M. Sguaitamatti dating to 27.06.1981 and 20.12.1981 are preserved in copy.
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| Authenticity: |
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