Lot 549
ETRUSCAN BUCCHERO CHALICE
NORTHERN ITALY, C. 7TH CENTURY

Auction: Day Two
Description
terracotta, standing on a trumpet foot, with an elegant high pedestal stem topped with a notched ridge, the bowl with subtly sloping ridges decorated with incised concentric bands, impressed fan patterns and geometric motifs
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Provenance
Provenance: Private collection, acquired Aphrodite Gallery, Fine Antiquities Sale, 24 September 2018, lot 17. Formerly ex J. Bowman collection, Massachusetts, acquired in Firenze, Italy 1960's, with copy of original receipt
Footnote
Note: The present example is Rasmussen’s chalice type 2d: see Rasmussen, Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria, p. 116; pl. 36, no. 203 is closest in form to Inv. 14.01. For parallel from Orvieto, dated c. 630-610BC, with different placement of decoration and lower foot on chalice, refer Hayes, Etruscan and Italic Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum, p. 72, no. C14.

