Etruscan Genucilla plate
€700
available
Object number
AR3289
| Object: |
Plate with high foot
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| Material: |
Yellow clay with black painting
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| Date: |
4th century B.C. Etruscan culture |
| Description: |
Plate with high foot, flat bowl and a broad rim. Decorated with four rays around a central dot, in each of the segments three dots, wave with five crests on the rim.
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| Size: |
Diameter 141 mm, height 49 mm.
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| Condition: |
Almost perfectly preserved, part of the foot reattached, otherwise intact with very minor wear.
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| References: |
An identical plate (presumably from the same workshop), but in a worse state of preservation, is on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York City with Accession Number 1982.330.2. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Paris, Musee du Louvre 22, Pl. 47.11-12 (here six wave crests). Ines Stucker, Italy of the Etruscans, Exhibition Catalogue (Jerusalem 1991) Nr. 316 - 319. |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2022 from a UK auction house. Ex Australian private collection. Ex Ostracon Gallery, Thalwil, Switzerland, acquired there November 27, 2014 (certificate as well as note from australian collector are at hand) Ex F. Maino collection, Mendrisio, Switzerland. In possession of the Maino family since before 1968.
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| Authenticity: |
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