Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, Volume XIX - 2008

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102 ATTIC GEOMETRIC LARGE POTTERY OLPE, the entire surface decorated in black slip with banding, rows of Greek key designs, and stylized water birds. Earlier 8th Century BC. H. 16 1/2 in. (41.8 cm.) Ex French collection. 103 GREEK GEOMETRIC POTTERY TREFOIL OINOCHOE, the body of spherical silhouette with banding formed of three lines; the trefoil lip, shoulder, and foot with a broad band; the cylindrical neck with a waterbird between vertical wavy lines, bordered by triple-line bands. Possibly East Greek. 8th Century BC. H. 11 in. (27.9 cm.) Ex collection of Dr. W. E., Staufen, Germany, acquired in 1973. 104 CORINTHIAN POTTERY AMPHORA decorated with a central register of lotus buds, palmettes, three panthers, and a stag; rosettes in the field. Early 6th Century BC. H. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) Ex Dr. Elie Borowski collection, Basel, Switzerland. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XII, 2001, no. 165.

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