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THBLarge Villanovan Impasto Ware Footed Olla w/ Ribs
Lot 32
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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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Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! All categories, all price ranges... all legally acquired and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Ancient Europe, northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 7th century BCE. A gorgeous wheel-thrown olla of a broad, spherical form shaped from impasto ware (also called buccheroid impasto) and decorated with lustrous chocolate-brown pigment. The exterior of the bulbous vessel is adorned with thick, vertical ribs that commence just beneath the shoulder, and the vessel also features a pair of protruding parabolic handles, a corseted neck, and a flared rim, all atop a narrow foot. The width of the rim suggests that this olla was once accompanied by a form-fitting lid. 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: 14.375" W x 10.9" H (36.5 cm x 27.7 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 olla.
An example of an impasto ware olla with a lid hammered for $15,535 at Christie's, New York "Antiquities" auction (sale 1446, December 10, 2004, lot 517), and another olla without a lid hammered for $12,500 at Christie's, New York "Antiquities" auction (sale 2565, June 8, 2012, lot 116).
Provenance: private Orange County, California, USA collection, acquired in July 2019; ex-Bertolami Fine Art Auction 66 (lot 34); ex-private Belgian collection, acquired in Germany in the 1990s
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#156604Small area of repair to rim, with minute chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Abrasions and minor nicks to foot, rim, body, and handles, with light fading to areas of pigment, and light encrustations. Nice remains of pigment throughout.Condition
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