Etruscan bucchero ware stemmed dish, c.7th-6th century BC
Terracotta
Height: 10.9cm
10942 IVP
Charles Ede, London
The hemispherical bowl is set on a tall stem that flares to the wide, hollow base and has a thin, rounded collar at the top. The flat, wide rim with...
The hemispherical bowl is set on a tall stem that flares to the wide, hollow base and has a thin, rounded collar at the top. The flat, wide rim with a moulded pattern intersecting curlicues interspersed with teardrops. The rim and bowl recomposed with some lacunae, a restored break-line to the stem, cracks to the interior of the foot.
Provenance
Private collection, Eastern Switzerland; acquired at the end of the 19th century, thence by descent for two generations.
Private collection; by inheritance from her late husband, the grandson of the above.
A large, brown collection label, formerly attached to the interior of the bowl, has the date 1875 written in pencil.
