Ancient Europe, Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 9th to 7th century BCE. A fabulous wheel-thrown pouring vessel known as an oinochoe with a highly-burnished surface exuding a dark-brown color. A protruding foot supports the globular body, with a tapering cylindrical neck and a trefoil-lipped spout on top, and a wide strap handle joining spout to shoulder. The vessel is decorated with an incised corded motif which creates twisting rope patterns which encircle the neck and zigzag across the body. Impasto is a rough, heavy, and unrefined brown clay used heavily by the Villanovans and was the precursor to the more-recognizable Etruscan bucchero pottery. Size: 9" W x 11.8" H (22.9 cm x 30 cm).
The Villanovans inhabited Italy during the early Iron Age, and much of what we know of them comes from excavations of cemeteries (the first at Villanova near Bologna in northern Italy) where they cremated the dead and buried them in pottery urns in a very distinctive, double-cone shape. In the 8th century, Greek colonists arrived in the region, and began to influence Villanovan ceramics and their forms, as with this jar.
Provenance: private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection
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Condition
Repaired from multiple large pieces with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor abrasions to foot, body, rim, and handle, with light softening to some incised motifs, and fading to original pottery coloration. Nice earthen deposits throughout.