Woman and strap handle from a large Canosa-style vessel
Woman and strap handle from a large Canosa-style vessel
Place of OriginGreek, S. Italy (Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosa)
Dateabout 300 BCE
DimensionsH: 20 3/4 in. (52.7 cm); W: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); Depth: 7 7/8 in. (20.0 cm)
MediumEarthenware; molded and hand-finished, pink and green polychrome decoration preserved over white slip.
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineGift of the Popplestone Family
Object number
2006.83
Not on View
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Published ReferencesEisenberg, Jerome M., "Winter 2002 Antiquities Sales," MINERVA, vol. 14, no. 2 (2003) p. 42. (Note: This object is neither illustrated nor mentioned in this review, but there is a brief account of the ownership of the 112 lots sold at Christie's as probably "unpublicised long-term loans from Mr. and Mrs. Fujita" to the Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum and "all the property of the recently deceased dealer Takuhiko Fujita," who was the primary source of the Museum.) Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 12 December 2002, p. 40, lot 58. Erika Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities. Mainz on Rhine, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1982, 208-209, no 141.Exhibition HistoryExhibition of Greek and Etruscan Antiquities, Tokyo, 1974, pl. 72.- Decorative Arts
mid-5th century BCE
3rd century BCE
350-340 BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Late 6th millennium BCE
Late 4th century BCE
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