Greek black-glaze salt, South Italy, Campania, c.4th century BC
Terracotta
Height: 4.3cm, diameter: 7.3cm
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The dish is set a tall foot which flares towards the offset shoulder. The convex bowl has an inward-curving rim, the interior rounded and undecorated except for a stamped floral...
The dish is set a tall foot which flares towards the offset shoulder. The convex bowl has an inward-curving rim, the interior rounded and undecorated except for a stamped floral motif in the centre, the exterior covered with incised, close-set, vertical lines, the resting surface and interior of the foot reserved. A few accidental drips of the slip. Wear to the glaze at the lip and body.
Provenance
Leon Levy, New York, USA Dr Dorothy Lobel King, London, UK; gifted from the above late 1980sLiterature
For the tooling see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Capua, Museo Campano (III), IV, Eg, pl.21, nos.2 and 81
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