Eastern Greek Ionian Painted Plate

6th-5th century BC. A Doric ceramic plate with shallow profile, the upper face painted with concentric circumferential bands of stylised leaves expressed as dashed lines 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 Paspalas, A.S., 'The Non-figured Wares from the Anglo-Turkish Excavations at Old Smyrna' in Villing, A., Schlotzhauer, U., Naukratis, Greek Diversity in Egypt, Studies on East Greek Pottery and Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean, London, 2006, pp.93-104, fig.4, no.6. 79 grams, 13.1cm (5 1/4"). Property of a gentleman from Vienna; from his private collection; previously acquired in Munich, Germany, between 1992 and 1996. Plates with flat rims of Ionian production present simple decorative schemes with parallels elsewhere in North Ionia and Aiolis. Their decorative schemes include interlocking S rim patterns, groups of bars, hatched triangles and groups of petals. For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price [No Reserve]
Condition Report: Fair condition.