Description:

Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. late 6th to 5th century BCE; Magna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A beautiful Attic perfume vessel called a plemochoe with a compressed circular body resting atop a narrow stem and a broad, flared foot. The black-glazed exterior is embellished with an ovolo shoulder outside of a stippled ring, and the interior lip holds an Apulian discoid rim bearing the charming face of a 'lady of fashion' wearing a kekryphalos. The interior of the vessel has a vertical lip that dips down into the basin to keep the contents from spilling out should the container be tipped on its side. A beautiful piece of utilitarian Attic artistry! Size: 6.5" W x 4.375" H (16.5 cm x 11.1 cm)

For another example of an Attic plemochoe, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 07.286.46a, b.

Provenance: private Orange County, California, USA collection; ex-Hermann Historica auctions, Grasbrunn, Germany

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  • Condition: Repairs to a few small areas of foot, with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Nicks to foot, stem, body, and lid, with abrasions and fading to original pigment, and light encrustations. Nice earthen deposits and remains of pigment throughout.

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