Small black glaze Oinochoe
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Object number
AR3181
| Object: |
Small oinochoe
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| Material: |
Red clay with glossy metallic black slip
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| Date: |
4th century B.C. Early Hellenistic epoch |
| Description: |
Small voluminous vase with conical ring-shaped base, short flat shoulder, short cylindrical neck, wide lip and a bi-furcate handle. Body decorated with grooves. |
| Size: |
Height 80 mm, diameter 78 mm
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| Condition: |
Almost perfectly preserved, only and about 2cm long part of mouth is professionally re-modeled. Otherwise undamaged. Intense metallic glaze, wonderful overall impression.
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| References: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Pl. 45.4;5 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Parma, Museo Nazionale di Antichita 2, Pl. 3.7 (with tre-foil shaped mouth) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Copenhagen, National Museum 7, Pl. 286.1-5.12-13 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fiesole, Collezione Costantini 2, Pl. 38.5 |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2021 from a German private collection. Inherited 2017 from the German collection I. Holtermann. Acquired between 1968 and 1968 at an ancient art gallery in Cologne, Germany.
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| Authenticity: |
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