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THBGreek Canosan Ceramic Knob-Handled Patera with Swan
Lot 31b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 3rd century BCE. A large, gracefully decorated and beautifully preserved patera (phiale), a shallow bowl for libations. Painted in tondo is an elegant swan, portrayed here as if floating on water but ready to take flight, its wings partially raised, its neck dipped in a tight curve and its broad feet tucked beneath it. The vessel stands on a low, round foot, attached via a narrow leg. Twin handles, each flanked by two spool- or wheel-like knobs, sit on the broad, flat rim. This vessel and others like it were produced especially for funerary purposes, and many have been found in the chambered tombs dug out of the bedrock that surrounds Canosa. Size: 15.25" W x 5.75" H (38.7 cm x 14.6 cm)
Canosa, or Canosion as it was known then, was a major center of the ceramics and pottery trade when it was a Greek polis. It produced truly unique pottery, completely different in decoration style (although not in shape) from earlier and neighboring traditions. The clay was buff, with the decoration applied directly to it without the use of slip. The entire body was covered with white slip, with a second ground of pink color applied over the background where designs have not been drawn. The iconography of this patera gives us an insight into popular religious beliefs in Magna Graecia. The swan played a complex role in Greek mythology - as the attribute of Aphrodite and Apollo, said to sing a song of unearthly beauty as it died, and as the form assumed by Zeus to ravish Leda, mother of Helen of Troy.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
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#137834One knob is missing, otherwise in beautiful condition, with a well-preserved motif and nice deposits on surface.Condition
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