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Lot 52

Two Villanovan impasto ware amphorae
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28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Two Villanovan impasto ware amphorae
Circa 7th Century B.C.
Of burnished brown fabric, each amphora with broad strap handles and short necks, the spherical bodies with incised decoration of a stylised bird above a double spiral, with stippled triangles, chevrons and circles, 24cm and 11.5cm high respectively (2)

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Provenance:
with Herbert A. Cahn, Kunst der Antike, Basel.
Drs Gerd and Sigrid von der Gönna collection, Germany, acquired from the above 1998 and 1994.

Cf. a similar bird and spiral decorated amphora, formerly in the Campana Collection and now in the Louvre, acc. no. C551. See also S. Cassani (ed.), The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000-300 B.C., Geneva, 1993, p. 175.

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