A Large Cycladic Marble Kandila, Early Bronze Age I, circa...
A Large Cycladic Marble Kandila, Early Bronze Age I, circa 3000-2700 B.C.
with conical foot concave underneath, hemispherical body with four pierced lug handles and flat shoulder, and tall conical neck sightly everted at the rim.
Height 37.2 cm
Catalogue Note:
In 1978, Pat Gentle-Preziosi wrote: "This harmoniously proportioned jar is perhaps the largest well preserved of its type - and the largest vessel produced in the Grotas Pelos phase - known at present"; to her knowledge, such was still the case in 1996.
Provenance:
Michael Waltz (1938-2010), Munich
Rolf Weinberg (1930-2022), Zurich, acquired from the above in 1976
by descent to the present owner
Literature:
Jürgen Thimme, ed., Kunst und Kultur der Kykladeninseln im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr., catalogue of the exhibition, Karlsruhe, 1976, p. 498, text to no. 268
Pat Getz-Preziosi, "Addenda to the Cycladic Exhibition in Karlsruhe," Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1978, pp. 7-8, cat. d), fig. 10
Pat Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Bronze Age, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1996, p. 341, pl. 20
A Large Cycladic Marble Kandila, Early Bronze Age I, circa 3000-2700 B.C.
with conical foot concave underneath, hemispherical body with four pierced lug handles and flat shoulder, and tall conical neck sightly everted at the rim.
Height 37.2 cm
Catalogue Note:
In 1978, Pat Gentle-Preziosi wrote: "This harmoniously proportioned jar is perhaps the largest well preserved of its type - and the largest vessel produced in the Grotas Pelos phase - known at present"; to her knowledge, such was still the case in 1996.
Provenance:
Michael Waltz (1938-2010), Munich
Rolf Weinberg (1930-2022), Zurich, acquired from the above in 1976
by descent to the present owner
Literature:
Jürgen Thimme, ed., Kunst und Kultur der Kykladeninseln im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr., catalogue of the exhibition, Karlsruhe, 1976, p. 498, text to no. 268
Pat Getz-Preziosi, "Addenda to the Cycladic Exhibition in Karlsruhe," Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1978, pp. 7-8, cat. d), fig. 10
Pat Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Bronze Age, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1996, p. 341, pl. 20
