A Corinthian pottery alabastron

A Corinthian pottery alabastron
Circa late 7th Century B.C.
Decorated with a winged Boread, a bird in flight beneath the handle amongst a field of rosettes, rays around the disc rim, with finely incised details, 8cm high

Provenance:
Gübelin collection, Switzerland, prior to 1970.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired on the Swiss art market, 2006.
with Kallos Gallery, London, January 2016.

The Boreads, Zetes and Calais were the winged sons of the god of the North Wind, Boreas. There is another example of a Corinthian alabastron decorated with a running Boread in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 74.51.1414.