CANTHARE
With flat handles, decorated on the rim with a frieze of squared rhombuses, framed by vertical and horizontal lines; dots between the rhombuses, metopes separated by four vertical lines and framed by horizontal lines: 1) in the center, a motif of 4 leaves separated by rosettes of 7 dots, 2) on either side, a heron whose body is painted black, facing a sprig of foliage towards the central motif. Light clay.
Attica, Late Geometric, c. 730 B.C. Height. 12 cm.
PARALLEL.
. Attic GR geometric canthara, Copenhagen, National Museum, no. 727, provenance Dipylon necropolis.
. Louvre, Canthar c. 740 B.C., Rhodes, Salzmann Collection, 1864.
PROVENANCE.
. Antoine Tarantino Collection, Paris.
. Presence on the art market, Paris.
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