Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful huge double askos, a vessel with a round body and twin spouts joined by a wide double cylindrical handle in the center. One of the spouts has a punctured surface, a sprinkler. These vessels were produced specially for funerary purposes, and many have been found in the chambered tombs dug out of the bedrock that surrounds Canosa. All around the body and spouts are beautiful abstract geometric designs and what looks like spiders, waves, and mazes as repeated motifs. Canosa, or Canosion as it was known then, was a major center of the ceramics and pottery trade when it was a Greek polis. It produced truly unique pottery, completely different in decoration style (although not in shape) from earlier and neighboring traditions. The clay is buff, with the decoration applied directly to it without the use of slip. The entire body was covered with white slip, with a second ground of pink/orange color applied over the background where designs have not been drawn. Size: 7.1" W x 8.75" H (18 cm x 22.2 cm)

Provenance: Ex-Private Orange County, CA collection

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Repair to spout; bright paint