Corinthian Pottery 14 PROTOCORINTHIAN ROUNDMOUTHED OINOCHOE with a central band of animals. Ca. 640-630 BC. H. 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) Ex German collection; John Kluge collection, Charlottesville, Virginia, acquired from Royal-Athena in 1983; Patricia Kluge collection, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1990-2010. This is a rare and important vase, a masterwork of potting and painting produced in Corinth in the time of transition from the Late Protocorinthian to the Corinthian styles. In the frieze around the middle of the body are eight animals: two goats, two leopards (?), a lion, a boar, a bull, and a ram. Seven of the beasts walk to the left. The ram, however, walks to the right and comes head to head with the bull; both lower their heads as though determined to contest the right of way. This parade of beasts is executed with far more feeling and precision than would ever again be found in the developed Corinthian style. Parts of each animal are highlighted by the use of added red. The shape is East Greek but the decoration is pure Corinthian. Only one other example is known which also has an animal frieze: Munich 228; see H. Payne, Necrocorinthia, Oxford, 1931, p. 272, no. 149. Cf. A. Lane, Greek Pottery, New York, 1949, pl. 24A; F. Villard, CVA Louvre 13, pl. 47, 1-2; and H. Bloesch, ed., Greek Vases from the Hirschmann Collection, Zurich, 1982, 18-19 and 94, no. 6.
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