An elegant Etruscan bucchero kantharos with a carinated bowl and high arching strap handles, not quite identical, either side which extend above the lip of the cup. A flanged border between the body and the foot is decorated with a toothed ridge around the base.
With an old, yellowed inventory card.
 
Etruscan Italy: Circa 625-550BC.
 
Very Fine condition: A professional repair to both handles (as usually is the case).
 
Diameter across the top of the bowl 13 cms (5.1 ins).
Height to top of the handles 12 cms (4.7 ins).
 
Provenance: North German private collection, taken over by the mother from the grandfather's former collection. Acquired by him in the early 1980s in the North German art trade.
 
Literature: Tom B. Rasmussen, Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 101-110, pls. 30-33; John W. Hayes, Etruscan and Italic Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum: a Catalogue (Toronto, 1985), p. 75, 77 (nos. C22-23); Philip Perkins, Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum (British Museum Research Publications, 165) (London, British Museum, 2007), p. 45-50, 114-118 (nos. 161-191).