Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 23
A large Daunian pottery olla
3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,295 inc. premium
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Siobhan Quin
Senior Specialist
A large Daunian pottery olla
Circa 5th Century B.C.
With deep funnel-shaped mouth, twin loop handles each with a notch at the apex, and a pair of hand-shaped handles rising from the shoulders, decorated with geometric designs in red and dark-brown, 31cm high
Circa 5th Century B.C.
With deep funnel-shaped mouth, twin loop handles each with a notch at the apex, and a pair of hand-shaped handles rising from the shoulders, decorated with geometric designs in red and dark-brown, 31cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1977, lot 115.
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale.
For a similar olla modelled with hands, see S. Cassani, The Art of the Italic Peoples, Geneva, 1993, p. 321, fig. 211.