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Daunian Poly-Chrome Olpe, Ex-Farwell, Published

Currency:USD Category:Antiquities / Greek Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:450.00 - 550.00 USD
Daunian Poly-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
South Italy, Ca. 5th-4th Century BC. Interesting design! Jar is decorated with a triangular geometric design on the body of the jar with brown and red lines. Unlike most of our other olpes, the spout and handle are not connected. The spout has a brown band around the rim with "III" at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock. There is vertical textured ribbing around the spout of the jar. This likely held an offering for the dead in the afterlife. 4-1/2"H X 4-1/2"W. There is a repaired crack around the base of the spout, else intact. Surface and paint wear.

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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