Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe
Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe - Art for Eternity
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Greek Geometric Pottery Tankard Oinochoe

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A rare and historic Greek terracotta tankard, Attic or Boeotian, Late Geometric Period, circa 8th century BC. Wheel-thrown from pale buff earthenware, the vessel is elegantly potted with a bulbous, rounded lower body, a concave shoulder, and a tall, flaring cylindrical neck terminating in an everted, thin-lipped rim. A high strap loop handle rises dramatically above the rim before descending straight down to anchor at the lower shoulder, fitted with an integral horizontal strut bridging the handle to the upper neck wall for structural reinforcement. The exterior is painted in dark brown-to-black slip with classic Geometric motifs, featuring a register of elongated, crosshatched vertical leaves (or arcade tongue patterns) around the neck, bordered by horizontal bands, dotted registers, a running frieze of tangent dotted circles around the belly, and linear groupings on the handle back and interior rim. Measuring 7-1/2 inches in height (19.05 cm H.). Surviving intact with minor, expected rim frits, light surface abrasions, and stable ancient wear consistent with age and burial. For closely related Late Geometric ceramic tankards and high-handled jugs, compare with examples in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (such as Acc. Nos. 10.210.8 and 06.1021.28).Provenance: Collection of the noted classical archaeologist and scholar Dr. Edward Ochsenschlager (1933–2019), professor of classics and co-director of the Brooklyn College excavations at Sirmium, Yugoslavia. This exact tankard is famously visible and documented sitting on Dr. Ochsenschlager's research desk in a feature photograph published in The New York Times on January 27, 1974, accompanying the article "Brooklyn College Digging Archeology" by Wendy Schuman (page 88)

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