Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
Lot 9*
An Italo-Geometric pottery oinochoe
6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Siobhan Quin
Senior Specialist
Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
An Italo-Geometric pottery oinochoe
Cumae type, late 8th-early 7th century B.C.
30cm high
Cumae type, late 8th-early 7th century B.C.
30cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Tollmann collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1960s-1970s.
Reputedly with Wladimir Rosenbaum (1894-1984) of Galleria Serodine, Ascona.
Anonymous sale; Gorny & Mosch, Munich, 16 June 2004, lot 75.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above sale.
Published:
H.P. Isler, Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich. Jahresbericht Nr. 33, 2006-2007, Zürich, 2007, p.6, as no. 1267.
Exhibited:
On loan to the Archaeological Collection, University of Zurich, 2006-2010 (L1267).
The above lot is decorated with linear bands, rays and a central fish design on the neck. The fish motif occurs frequently in Italo-Geometric pottery although it is uncommon in Geometric pottery of mainland Greece. Fish decoration is seen not only on jugs but also aryballoi, many of which have been found around the Etruscan city of Tarquinia. For examples of oinochoe decorated with fish cf. S. Tanci & C. Tortoioli, La ceramica italo-geometrica, materiali del museo archeologico nazionale di Tarquinia XV, 2002, fig. 27 and 29.