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THBImpressive Etruscan Bucchero Chalice
Lot 38c
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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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2018-07-05 10:00:00
2018-07-05 10:00:00
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- Lot Description
Classical World, Etruria, ca. early 6th century BCE. An elegant chalice with a slightly concave bowl and flaring, trumpet-shaped foot with a short, hollow stem. In the interior of the bowl there is a deep groove separating the wide rim from the floor of the bowl. The vase is a lustrous black with a flanged base and three incised grooves around the center of its body. Chalices like this one were wheel-made, with a foot that was thrown separately on the wheel and joined to the rest of the vase as the two pieces began to harden. It was then burnished with a slip and fired in a reducing atmosphere to produce this glossy black color, which is characteristic of the famous Bucchero technique. Size: 6.1" W x 6.45" H (15.5 cm x 16.4 cm)
This type of chalice was common during this period, and seems to have been inspired by Assyrian chalices imported from the Near East a century earlier. This chalice almost certainly came from a funerary context, placed in an opulent Etruscan tomb as an offering. However, it was probably placed there because similar - or maybe even the same - vessels were used in life by the people of Etruria; items placed in the tomb were meant to be a link between the world of the living and the dead, and to help furnish a symbolic domestic space for the deceased. Therefore, it seems likely that chalices like this one were also used in everyday life for drinking wine or other beverages.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
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#136239Repaired from multiple pieces, with thin lines of overpaint along the repairs. Repairs are well done and unobtrusive. Light encrustation in some places, mainly on the interior.Condition
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