Greek Faliscan Red-Figure Beaked Oinochoe

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Faliscan, ca. 325 to 300 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery oinochoe with a wide base which gradually expands to a globular body with a rounded shoulder, a cylindrical neck with a "beaked" ovoid spout, and a thick, applied strap handle with two upturned volutes flanking the spout opening. The body is decorated in red-figure with a right-facing Triton - a demigod of the seas and a messenger of Poseidon - resting with his tail to the left while holding a patera in his right hand. The shoulder boasts an ovolo register, and a standing, left-facing woman adorns the neck while wearing a flowing chiton with both arms held aloft. Both the Triton and woman are flanked by shells and spiral hooks which terminate at a stylized palmette near the lower handle terminal, and the spout rim is embellished with additional ovolo forms. Size: 6.7" W x 13.8" H (17 cm x 35.1 cm).

Beaked jugs like these (Oinochoe Shape VII) are found in Beazley Fluid Group, J.D. Beazley, Etruscan Vase-Painting, (Oxford, 1947), pl. 36/5 & 7

For a stylistically-similar example, please see the Milwaukee Art Museum, purchase number M1965.21: http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=9920

Provenance: private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection; ex-private old French collection, acquired in the 1960s

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Condition Report: Vessel professionally repaired from multiple large pieces with some restoration, resurfacing, and overpainting along break lines. Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, small nicks to spout, handle, neck, body, and base, with fading to some areas of pigmentation, and light encrustations across most surfaces. Nice earthen deposits throughout.