Tall Greek Gnathian Glazed Pottery Epichysis

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, near Ignazia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A beautiful pottery pouring vessel known as an epichysis, possessing a characteristically spool-shaped base with a slender spout and a tall, arching loop handle with applied matching anthropomorphic maskettes adorning the areas where the upper handle end meets the spout. The lower body has a black-glazed surface adorned with fugitive white stippled bars that enclose a palmette-shaped fan with a slender handle. The shoulder is decorated with a motif of grape leaves stemming from a red ring and interspersed with zigzagging vines, and the projecting upper rim bears repeating petals, all in fugitive white and yellow pigment. A register of vertical white frets adorns the tapered neck, and the underside of the base is unadorned. Size: 4.375" W x 7.75" H (11.1 cm x 19.7 cm).

For a stylistically similar example, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1971.11.4.

Provenance: private J.H. collection, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, acquired prior to 2004; ex-Tom Cederlind collection, Portland, Oregon, USA

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Condition Report: Minor abrasions to base, body, handle, and spout, with fading to areas of fugitive pigment, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and excellent. Great traces of original pigment throughout, and faint silver iridescence on some glazed areas.