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Daunian Bi-Chrome Olpe, Ex Farwell, Published

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Daunian Bi-Chrome Olpe, Ex Farwell, Published

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Auction Date:2012 Nov 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-6 : CST/MDT)
Location:P.O. Box 714, Erie, Colorado, 80516, United States
Southern Italy, Ca. 5th-4th Century BC. Orange on tan bi-chrome design created with a thick orange band going around the middle of the jug with two parallel orange lines on either side. Inside the rim of the jug is another thick orange band, which is perpendicularly intersected by an orange band on the handle. The bulbous shape of the body rests on a slight raised platform. Original excavation tag included! 5"H x 5 1/2"W. Professional repairs to cracks on sides and surface wear as shown.

Provenance: Ex-Bryon Farwell Collection. Part of a 209 piece collection of ancient pottery featured in the book, "The Farwell Collection" published in 1953 by Franklin P. Johnson, University of Chicago art historian and archaeologist. Byron Farwell was a young Army captain stationed in Italy during WW II, and pieces presented in this book were personally excavated by him in 1944/45 in Ordonia, Italy.

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