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THBGreek Canosan Terracotta Bull Votive w/ Great Pigment
Lot 33
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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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Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. An intriguing sculpture of a bull's head above a disc-adorned column with a lovely integral pedestal base. Given that the base is concave, with a pronounced, flat rim, this piece may have served as the lid of a vessel designed to hold offerings or burn incense and be placed in a tomb. The bull's head is stylized, with a squared-off snout punctuated by two raised nostrils, long ears, and two large, curved, upright horns. The piece is painted with the characteristic pale white, red, and blue pigments, nice pigmentation is one of the hallmarks of Canosan artists! Size: 6.5" H (16.5 cm)
Canosa was a wealthy city that only grew in importance after the Romans entered the area in the late 4th century BCE. Their ceramic workshops produced items that were exclusively used in funerary contexts, including large vases with extensive applied decoration and incense burners known as thymiateria. The bull motif is known as bucrania, and it was very popular throughout the ancient world, celebrating the ritual religious practice of sacrificing bulls as well as the symbolism of the bull as a virile, powerful animal.
Provenance: private New York City, USA and Paris, France collection, acquired from La Reine Margot, 1970s to 1980s
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#152746Horns have been repaired. Fine remaining pigment and form. Nice areas of manganese deposits over surface.Condition
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