CIRCA EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.

细节

AN ITALO-CORINTHIAN POTTERY FIGURAL ARYBALLOS
CIRCA EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a hare, depicted hanging as if dead, with head thrown back, its forelegs and hind legs extended, toes delinated, outside of ears, tail and mouth of vessel in black, the fur rendered by brown stippling, whiskers in added red
10 in. (25.5 cm.) long

来源

Private collection, UK; acquired by Nicholas Embiricos, the husband of the current owner, prior to 1972.

拍场告示

Please note this lot is not Italo-Corinthian but East Greek.
Please also note that this lot has been published as part of the E. de Kolb collection in J. Ducat, Les Vases Plastiques Rhodiensi 1966, pl. XIX.

登入
浏览状况报告

拍品专文

Hares were often given as a love gift between an older to a younger man, and it is possible that this aryballos performed a similar function.
For a similar hanging hare, cf. F. Buranelli, The Etruscans, Legacy of a Lost Civilization, Memphis, 1992, no. 85.