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Impasto Bowl with Two Smaller Bowls

Villanovan, late 7th cent. B.C.

Clay, impasto

Height: 11.4 cm

Diameter: 26.1 cm (rim)

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Incised with alternating zigzag circles on the upper side of the wide rim. The attached bowls at the rim are decorated with incised circles, while on the outside of the bowl, triple hanging semi-circles were incised like garlands. On the underside of the bottom an equally fluted cross, inside an omphalos. Double hole at rim for suspending up the vessel. Both small bowls glued back onto the rim, otherwise intact. Rare type.

PROVENANCE

Formerly priv. coll. Prof. Kurt Alder, Riehen, Switzerland; acquired from Galerie Koller, Zurich, Auction 33, May 1975, lot 4151. Thence by descent in the family.

NOTE

Cf. a stemmed bowl with two attached little bowls, see I. Jucker, Italy of the Etruscans (Jerusalem 1991) 163 f., no. 196.

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