Etruscan Bucchero Calyx

Culture: Etruscan

Period: Late 7th to early 6th century B.C.

Material: Terracotta

Dimensions: 13 cm high; 13.9 cm in diameter

Price: Sold

Ref: 4152

Provenance: Private collection Karl Zieger (1939-2021), Lower Austria. Acquired in the late 1990s from the Galerie Socowi Wien.

Condition: Professionally restored from six shards and without any missing parts.

Description: Etruscan drinking cup on a high foot with a broad, trumpet-shaped stand ring. The corpus has four parallel incised circumferential grooves. Above nine finely dotted fans pressed all around with a comb into the still soft clay. The chalice has inside a set off bottom which manifests outside as a bent bar.