Greek Attic Figural Oinochoe of a Lady, TL Tested

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Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

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Jun 4, 2020

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• Lot Description
  Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. 475 to 450 BCE. An elegant figural oinochoe depicting the bust of a lovely lady, perhaps a maenad, her visage presenting almond-shaped eyes delineated in black with white sclera, long arched brows in black, a naturalistic nose, full closed lips, delicate facial contours, a fringe of curls rendered as three rows of dots in bas relief framing her forehead, all capped by a black saccos adorned with a white leafy wreath. She boasts a long slender neck with a black band at the bottom suggesting the collar of her garment. The vessel's trefoil mouth rises from her head and is joined to the back of her head via a raised loop handle. A most elegant example of Attic ware! Size: 5.5" H (14 cm)
  
  The curatorial description of a similar example (attributed to the Cook Class) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession number 01.8.7) states, "Head vases became important in Attic vase-painting at the end of the sixth century B.C. and continued almost through the fifth. Considerable numbers of these small examples exist, mostly with the head of a woman but occasionally with that of Herakles or another male figure. Since the Greeks tended not to waste valuable materials on funerary offerings, one wonders whether such pieces contained a token dedication."
  
  This piece has been tested using thermoluminescence (TL) analysis and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full report will accompany purchase.
  
  A similar figural oinochoe, attributed to the Cook Class ca. 500 to 475 BCE, hammered for GBP 3,750 ($4,877.64) at Christies London: Antiquities, 1 October 2015, Lot 5.
  
  See another similar oinochoe in the Kinsky Palace, Prague collection (NM-HM10 1904)
  
  See another similar oinochoe published in J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, 1985, no. 82; J. Eisenberg, One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases II, 2010, no. 147; J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, 2010, no. 147 - exhibited at Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1985-2009. Also see H. B. Walters (ed.), Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, 1929, p. 10, pl. 45/3-8 for a parallel example.
  
  Provenance: ex-private G. Loles collection, Connecticut, USA, acquired in the 1980s; ex Cecil Best collection, London, UK, 1883 to 1973
  
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  Condition

  Repaired break around the base with restoration over the break lines. Restoration to spout and handle. TL hole on base. Some surface wear with areas of pigment loss to eyes, scuffs/abrasions to bridge and tip of nose and other high pointed areas. Scattered areas of surface encrustation as shown.
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