Large Etruscan amphora painted in red
€3,500
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Object number
AR3358
| Object: |
Amphora with two handles
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| Material: |
Beige-reddish clay with red slip
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| Date: |
7th century B.C. Etruscan, italo-geometric |
| Description: |
Voluminous vase with wide base, conical foot, wide cylindrical neck and flat broad lip. Two bipartite handles. Body decorated with bands and thin lines, possibly showing stylized fishes (see reference below). Geometrical shapes and wave crests on neck, band of rays on the lower part of the body. |
| Size: |
Height 44cm, diameter 22m without and 24cm with handles.
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| Condition: |
Professionally restored from fragments, small areas with missing material remodeled. One of the handles broken. An extensive restoration report from the University of Zurich dating back to 1974 is at hand as a copy. The decoration in red slip is widely preserved. Impressive object.
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| Reference: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Tours and Bourges, Musee des Beaux Arts et Musee du Berry, Pl. 10.1-3; 10.4-6
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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. The vase was presented at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Zurich in 1974 for cleaning and restoration by Dr. S. Jenner, probably upon request by Ms. Scotoni-Coppetti. A letter with the restoration report and expertise by Mr. Bloesch from the Archaeological Institute Zurich dating October 15, 1974, is preserved in copy. Also preserved is a letter from March 19, 1982, by Dr. Ralph Scotoni, in which he offers several objects from the collection of his late mother, incl. this amphora, to Prof. Cahn in Basel.
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| Authenticity: |
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