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A Greek Daunian Double Situla

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Item Details

Description

A lovely Canosan (South Italian) pottery double situla, formed from two ovoid vessels having a flat base and flaring lip, joined together with a high-arched handle.

Buff-coloured with decoration in black and red slip (matt painted), showing various geometric and vegetal motifs, among them a frieze with a wreath of ivy, strap-work, an encircling wavy band and metope-like decorations in the lower part. The interior of the flaring lip of both vessels decorated with ovolo, on the handle a series of V-shaped decorations over metopes with Andreas crosses.

A similar double situla sold at Christie's New York, sale 2007, 4 June 2008, lot 212, for US$ 8,750 (= € 5,665).

Dimensions: Overall height 20 cm., without the handle 15.5 cm.; length 28 cm.; diameter of each vessel circa 12 cm.

Literature:
Jacques Chamay - Chantal Courtois (éds.), L'Art premier des Iapyges. Céramique antique d'Italie méridionale (Electa Napoli, 2002), especially no. 80-82;
F.L. Bastet, Pot en Penseel, gids voor de verzameling Grieks aardewerk in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (Leiden, 1985), p. 68;
Douwe G. Yntema, The Matt-Painted Pottery of Southern Italy (Utrecht, 1985) p. 398, fig. 272.

Provenance: Private collection Dr. W. E., Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Condition

Complete and intact, except for a chip on the rim of one of the vessels (ca 1.5 cm long); surface slightly worn in places; some scratches and minor other surface damage; in fine condition overall.