Greek kantharos, Late Geometric Period, c.8th-7th century BC
Terracotta
Height: 12cm, width across the handles: 17cm
10968
Charles Ede, London
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The double-handled drinking vessel has a particularly elegant shape, with thin walls and decoration in an umber slip. Around the vertical rim is a frieze of long-necked water birds. The...
The double-handled drinking vessel has a particularly elegant shape, with thin walls and decoration in an umber slip. Around the vertical rim is a frieze of long-necked water birds. The body bulges then tapers to a flat base, and is enlivened with large, cross-hatched tongues separated by three vertical lines 'metopes'. The section below the handles and the whole of the interior is covered in plain slip. Horizontal lines run the length of the high-arching ribbon handles. Condition generally fine, with a small loss under one handle.
The drinking vessels of the Late Geometric 1b Period (second half of the 8th century BC) saw a new motif intersperse the metope system; the cross-hatched tongue.
The drinking vessels of the Late Geometric 1b Period (second half of the 8th century BC) saw a new motif intersperse the metope system; the cross-hatched tongue.
Provenance
Elie Borowski, Basel, SwitzerlandMr Cyril Humphris, England; acquired from the above 1960s-70s
Private collection UK; by descent from the above
