Bucchero Chalice (ex Kantharos) with Impressed Animal Frieze
625 BCE-575 BCE
Description
Grey-black thick fabric with burnished black slip. Three lines incised at lip. Stamped frieze of griffins, lions or chimeras, sphinxes, horses, and grazing stags runs around central portion of body. Hooked notches at the join between the cup's body and base. Tall base. Two filled patches below the rim on either side of the vessel suggest that this vessel once had handles on either side and was a kantharos. Another kantharos in the collection [116.1917] with identical animal frieze retains its handles.
Dimensions
11 x 14.6 cm (4 5/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Purchased from Bernheimers', Cambridge, MA, by the McDaniel Collection, November 12 1963. Said to be from Messina, Sicily. Formerly Morgan Collection (1916 or 1920).
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