This black-figure amphoriskos vessel is decorated with three birds each looking back over their shoulders, with rosettes and dots in the field, concentric bands above and below, strokes at the shoulder and zigzag at the neck. With a tall foot and rim.
Middle Corinthian: Circa 600-575 BC.
Condition: the body is intact, neat minor repairs to the rim and neck, otherwise intact.
Height: 12 cms (4.7 ins)
Provenance:
Previously with Kallos Gallery, London.
Private collection, Virginia, USA, acquired from A. Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York, in the 1960s, thence by descent.
Literature: For further discussion see D.A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, Berkeley, 1988. For a very similar amphoriskos, see lot 18 Christie's sale of the Leo Mildenberg Collection: 26 October 2004.