a fine lydion

MID THIRD QUARTER OF 6TH CENTURY B.C., PROBABLY FROM SAMOS

细节
a fine lydion
Mid third quarter of 6th Century B.C., probably from Samos
The trumpet-shaped neck black glazed inside and out, the flat rim with broad black circle between finer orange-brown circles, the globular body with broad glazed band and finer horizontal orange lines above and below, high black foot with reserved outer edge, (small restored area to rim and minor chipping to foot, otherwise intact with fine surface); and another, provinicial Lydion, the body buff coloured with rim and neck black glazed inside and out, narrow reserved line around inside rim, broad black band around body with two horizontal lines above and one below, reserved edge to foot, (intact, unevenly fired on one side, minor chip to rim) (2)

拍品专文

This vase shape takes its name from Lydia, although the shape does occur elsewhere in Eastern Greece. For an almost identical piece cf. CVA, Germany 42, Mainz, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 1, pl. 26/3