A CAMPANIAN BLACK GLAZED SKYPHOS

Circa 400-300 BC. A vessel in the form of a drinking cup with handles angled very slightly up to the rim, the body tapering toward a spreading ring base. The skyphos was the most used drinking cup in Campania and was thought to derived from a wooden vessel used as a milking pail. For similar see Cambridge 17/26 (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Cambridge 1 [Great Britain 6], p. 41, pl. 41:36) Naples 139647 (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Napolii 2 [Italia 22], p. 10, pl. 20:3). Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 53, Plate 62, 9.Size: L:85mm / W:70mm ; 140gProvenance: From the private collection of a Kent gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK /European art markets.