Etruscan Oinochoe, 6th century BC. Black glazed... Lot 42

Etruscan Oinochoe, 6th century BC. Black glazed ceramic or bucchero. Measures: 10 x 7,5 x 7,5 cm. The oinochoe is a wine jug used to remove the wine from a crater -where it has been watered- before serving it. It fulfills a similar function to the olpe and is characterized by a single handle and a size of 20 to 40 cm. The heyday of the oinochoe is in the geometric period and it becomes rarer during the black figures. It is a type of pottery from Ancient Greece. It is characterized by having a single handle, and is classified according to the shape of the mouth and belly. In this case it is decorated with the black glaze technique, the same used in the technique of the red and black figures, but covering the piece completely, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw varnish, which adopted its characteristic black tone, intense and shiny, once fired.