Messapian column krater
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Object number
AR2977
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Column krater
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| Material: |
Pale clay with brown-black slip
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| Date: |
About 4th -3rd century B.C. Southern Italy, Messapian (the Messapians were a tribe who inhabited Apulia around what is today's Salento) |
| Description: |
Short conical base, voluminous body, steep shoulder, short cylindrical neck and vertical rim. Two flat handles are vertically attached to the outside of the shoulder, thus optically extending the vase to the top. The tops of the handles are shaped as thin discs with central depression and connected to the rim. Shoulder decorated with garland of dots with ivy leaves at the ends, centrally large volute. On the other side line and dot decoration, centrally three birds to the left one above the other. Below meander and leaf bands, at the base long triangles, band of thick lines at the neck, stylized blossoms on the handle discs. |
| Size: |
Height 205 mm, diameter 207 mm
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| Condition: |
Excellently preserved for a vessel of this size. Original painting worn but still mainly recognizable.
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| Provenance: |
Acquired in 2017 at a US auction house. From the inheritance of Alvin M. Cohen, artist and Washington Post Art Director until 1992. Acquired in Ney York in the late 1970s till early 1980s.
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| Authenticity: |
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