Etruscan Bucchero Ware Dipper

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Etruscan Bucchero Ware Dipper
CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Early Etruscan.
DATE: First Half of the 7th Century BCE.
DIMENSIONS: 7 cm. (2.75 in.) diameter, 7 cm (2.75 in.) tall, including handle.

DESCRIPTION: Intact. An early Etruscan Bucchero ware dipper or cup (Kyathos) made from a fine, light gray fabric. The entire surface is lightly burnished. The vessel is broadly bi-conical in form, with a flat base and substantial carination at roughly the midpoint. There is a high arched handle, flat in section, including a connective strut to the vessel’s rim. The handle flares outward, somewhat resembling an Ionic scroll, as it curves back towards the rim, ending in a narrow flat connection point. The vessel’s fabric is very thin and finely potted. Decoration includes very fine rouletting on the shoulder and eight horizontal lines on the handle’s connection point to the rim. There are a few very tiny chips to the rim, and patches of a very thin layer of lime encrustation. A superb specimen.

PROVENANCE: Formerly the property of an English owner, acquired 30 years earlier.

PUBLISHED: Bonhams, ANTIQUITIES, 1 May, 2008, London, Page 202, illustrated in color on Page 203.

COMPARISONS: Giacinto Matteucig, Poggio Buco, The Necropolis of Statonia, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1951, #12 from Tomb D and #6 & #7 from Tomb B, for very similar examples. Also, John W. Hayes, Etruscan and Italic Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1985, #B5 & #B6 for related examples from the early 7th Century BCE to close to 700 BCE.

Item #CA-08-92

Price $680.00