Greek black-glaze guttus, Athens, late 5th century BC
Terracotta
Height: 5.5cm; diameter: 6.6cm
11823 IVP
Greek feeder flask, the vertical loop handle set at right angles to the elongated, narrow spout, a circular filler hole in the centre of the horizontal shoulder. The surface is...
Greek feeder flask, the vertical loop handle set at right angles to the elongated, narrow spout, a circular filler hole in the centre of the horizontal shoulder. The surface is black-glazed apart from the underside of the foot. Intact, some small losses filled and painted out.
Provenance
Victor Emile Gabriel Chevallier (1889-1969) and his wife Marguerite Jeanne Verel (1887-1962), France; recorded in their inventory as no.71
Mr. X, France; by descent from the above in 1969, thence by descent through two estates
