HUGE DAUNIAN POTTERY VESSEL WITH HANDLES

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Ca. 550 - 500 BC. A pottery vessel with a broad flaring mouth above a short neck and a globular body tapering to a rounded base. The shoulder is fitted with two opposed vertical loop handles, set between two hand-shaped lugs modelled with the fingers in relief. The exterior is decorated in dark brown and reddish-brown paint over a pale ground with horizontal bands of varying width, a shoulder frieze of cross-hatched lozenges and vertical strokes, and a lower register of linked semicircles. Around the mouth, the upper surface is decorated with repeating arcuate panels. Size: 400mm x 400mm; 2.84kg For similar see: Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, Codice di Catalogo Nazionale 0300056546. Provenance: Property of London Ancient Art gallery; formerly in a private collection, London, acquired in Geneva from Alara gallery in the 1990s.

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