Eastern Greek Dorian Painted Plate

6th-5th century BC. An archaic Dorian ceramic plate with shallow profile, the upper face painted with concentric circumferential bands of geometric motifs between plain borders, bands with no infill and with solid fill. See fragment of a sherd of Doric Greek pottery with the same zig-zag lines in Attula, R., 'Archaic Greek Plates from the Apollo Sanctuary at Emecik, Knidos, results and Questions Concerning Dorian Pottery Production' in Villing A., Schlotzhauer Naukratis, Greek Diversity in Egypt, Studies on East Greek Pottery and Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean, London, 2006, pp.85-92, fig.15. 79 grams, 13.6cm (5 1/4"). Property of a gentleman from Vienna; from his private collection; previously acquired in Munich, Germany, between 1992 and 1996. The Archaic Knidos and more generally East Archaic Dorian pottery is not well known, although its numerous fragments are tracing through all the Mediterranean a chronological and stylistic model in which Knidia certainly occupied an important position. The fragment belongs to the group EMEE (Emec 58) of the Attula classification, which show a different quality of glaze. For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price [No Reserve]
Condition Report: Fair condition.