CANOSA, LARGE FUNERARY PSEUDO OINOCHOE

CANOSA, LARGE FUNERARY PSEUDO OINOCHOE

Polychrome woman’s head vase, mould-made with plastic decoration, radiate wreath of leaves around her wavy hair, back of head a red painted hairnet neatly tied, a figure of a woman clad in chiton with mantle on top, ivy wreath on her head, sculpted against a broad double ribbed handle curving high above; broad hollow base, upright two-toned leaf in black and red colors at either side of neck.

Ex priv. coll. W. de K., Netherlands, acq. from Swiss market, Arete Zürich, 1988
H. 41 cm. Intact, apart from one leaf broken. On loan APM.B/11.

729 300 – 275 BC  

Publ. Mededelingenblad Allard Pierson Museum nr. 51, 1991, pp. 3-9