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Lot 18
A GOOD IMPASTO-WARE OLLA WITH CHEQUERBOARD PATTERN
Estimated Value:
3.000 € - 5.000 €
Result:
2.590 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Early Etruscan, 2nd half of the 7th century BC.H. 43 cm
Redish tone; matt surface with partly still preserved applied white paint. A similar shape with a wide mouth, the bulging lip of which is set off by a fine groove. Except for two narrow zones on the lower and upper edge of the wall, decorated with fields, the outlines of which are set in thin bars: five rows of squares offset against each other and becoming smaller towards the bottom between two rows of triangles; every second field partly painted with remnants of white paint.
Important private collection Rhineland, acquired on 5.10.1963, lot 155 at Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, published in the catalogue Kunstwerke der Antike, plate 56, top left and p. 83 with text description. By descent within the family to the present owner
An olla is a certain vessel type, which was already very common in antiquity. The term comes from the Latin (olla or aula = pot, cooking vessel) and was used in antiquity primarily as a cooking, storage or burial vesseläß (urn). Ollas with similar decoration from Poggio Buco in G. Matteucig, op. cit. O. (no. 4) t. VI, 3 and t. XV, Io and from Vulci in E.H. Dohan, Italic Tomb-Groups (1942), t. 47, 4; these differ from our urn, however, in that the squares are offset in a chequerboard pattern. Compare two similar ollas sold at Christie's New York, 17.10.2023, lot 10 - Surface with slightly damage, white faded; part of the painting repaint, otherwise intact
