DAUNIAN BICHROME KRATER WITH GEOMETRIC DECORATION

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Ca. 550 - 400 BC. A bichrome krater with a broad everted rim above a short neck and a globular body tapering to a narrow base, the shoulder fitted with two opposed high-arched strap handles alternating with two projecting hand-shaped lugs with incised fingers. The decoration in horizontal brown and red bands, including a hatched frieze at the shoulder and multiple stripes encircling the body, with a lower register of concentric arcs, repeated inside the mouth. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 1970.11.11. Size: 300mm x 320mm; Weight: 3.7kg Provenance: Private London collection; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; originally in the collection of C D'hondt, Liege 1980?s.

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