Pair of Italo-Corinthian black-figure olpen by... Lot 43

Pair of Italo-Corinthian black-figure olpen by the Rosoni painter. 580 - 460 BC. H 39.1 and 39.8 cm, ø body 16.6 and 16.8 cm. Jugs with straight mouths and rotelle on the profiled handles. Each with five animal friezes depicting stags and cows, billy goats, panthers and lions as well as waterfowl, with a male sphinx as a central motif on the larger olpe. Numerous details in red. White dot rosettes on the rotelle and neck. A matching pair! The larger olpe intact, the smaller one composed of fragments in the lower area, small missing part at the mouth. The unusual name Rosoni (window roses) comes from the fact that the rosettes on the animal friezes are reminiscent of the window roses of Kathredalen. For the painter, see J. G. Szilagyi, Ceramica Etrusco-Corinzia Figurata (1992) pp. 334-371. Provenance: Ex collection I. L., Austria, acquired between 1960 and 1990.