A large Daunian pottery olla Circa 5th Century B.C. With deep funnel-shaped mouth, twin loop handles each with a notch at the apex, and a pair of hand-shaped handles rising from the shoulders, decorated with geometric designs in red and dark-brown, 31cm high Fußnoten Provenance: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1977, lot 115. Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale. For a similar olla modelled with hands, see S. Cassani, The Art of the Italic Peoples, Geneva, 1993, p. 321, fig. 211.
A large Daunian pottery olla Circa 5th Century B.C. With deep funnel-shaped mouth, twin loop handles each with a notch at the apex, and a pair of hand-shaped handles rising from the shoulders, decorated with geometric designs in red and dark-brown, 31cm high Fußnoten Provenance: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1977, lot 115. Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale. For a similar olla modelled with hands, see S. Cassani, The Art of the Italic Peoples, Geneva, 1993, p. 321, fig. 211.
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