Italo-Geometric Pottery Oinochoe

SKU: MS.0026

Origin: Mediterranean
Circa: c. 8th century BC
Dimensions: 13" Height x 7.25" Width (33cms x 18.4cms)
Medium: Terracotta

With trefoil lip, decorated in brown slip, the neck with a band of large triangles and horizontal bands above and below, the shoulder with band of triangles, the body with two serpentine bands and multiple horizontal bands of varying widths, a band of elongated triangles around the lower body, the handle with crossed and horizontal bands.

Private collection, UK, acquired 1990 from Charles Ede Ltd, London (catalogue 150, no. 28)

Trefoil lip with repaired break with infill and overpainting along the repair lines. Handle repaired at top and bottom with infill and overpainting around both breaks. A corresponding small infilled section over the body just below the handle. A consolidated vertical fracture running from the base of the oinochoe up through the body into the bands of decoration over the middle of the body with infill and overpainting along this line. Slight misfiring of the dark slip to red in places. Dirt speckling in patches of the surface. Some crazing and minor flaking to the decoration overall.

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Italo-Geometric Pottery Oinochoe

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