Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos
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Etruscan Bucchero Kantharos

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 Central Etruria, Archaic Period, ca. 600–550 B.C.,

Wheel-thrown earthenware fired in reduction to a lustrous black burnished surface, the deep carinated bowl decorated at the waist with a notched toothed-ridge band and raised on a short ringed stem above a flaring disc foot, with two tall looped strap handles rising elegantly above the rim; kantharoi were wine-drinking vessels used in banquet and ritual contexts, and the form is closely associated with wine service and Dionysian imagery in the ancient Mediterranean.

measures 4⅜ in. high x 7¼ in. wide (11.1 x 18.4 cm),

compare closely with published and institutional examples such as Vassar CC48.178, VMFA 68.168, and examples discussed in Ines Jucker, Italy of the Etruscans. Provenance: Ex Collection D., Vienna, acquired at Dorotheum, Vienna, 1970s–1980s. 

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