You are considering a very attractive ancient Greek ceramic painted Kylix from Apulia, dating to around 375 BC.
This beautiful Xenon ware vessel is adorned with amber comma chains and straight lines.
Date: late 4th century BC.
Height: 1 1/4 inches.
Diameter: 4 1/2 inches (with handles).
Old English collection.
Function:
A drinking cup.
Manufacture:
A wheel-thrown vase with hand-made handles.
Decoration:
Commas are painted in orange over the black on the lip, between the handles. Beneath the chevrons are bold orange horizontal lines.
Intact; unrestored.
A few small chips.
Bibliography:
Beazley, J. D., Etruscan Vase-Painting, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1947, 218-221 ("Xenon Group").
Green, J. R., "The Xenon Group", The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, eds. M. E. Mayo and K. Hamma, Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1982, 291-292.
Robinson, E. G. D., "Between Greek and Native: The Xenon Group", Greek Colonists and Native Populations: Proceedings of the First Australian Congress of Classical Archaeology, ed. J-P. Descœudres, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990, 251-265.
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