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Pair of South Italic Olpe and Salt Dish, Ex Farwell, Published

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Pair of South Italic Olpe and Salt Dish, 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. Perfect Pair! Never be left without seasoning for your wine! Olpe features features a poly-chrome design with a thick red - orange band going around the middle of the jar, surrounded by two parallel orange lines above and one below. An orange/brown band is painted on the inside of the rim and is intersected by an orangebrown line on the handle. Olpe demonstrates the practice of burning wood on top of pottery to great interesting designs on top of the thick middle band. The salt dish stands on a slightly raised pedestal and is painted orange with a brown band around the top of the rim. It has two ancient holes (created before firing) for hanging on the wall. Olpe: 3-1/2"H x 4"W, Salt Dish: 1-1/2"H x 4"W. Olpe is intact/excellent with minor surface wear. Salt dish is intact with surface 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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