Etruscan Bucchero Olpe. c.625-550 B.C. A voluminous pear-shaped clay bucchero covered with a glossy black slip, trumpet-shaped neck and rim, high handle and discoid foot, circumferential grooves to the shoulder. See Edmund, The Iron Age and Etruscan Vases in the Olcott Collection at Columbia University, New York, pp.28-29, which notes that jugs of this type are seen in most museums that have collections of Etruscan bucchero vases. Edmund notes that similar jugs come from Cerveteri (Museo Cerite, Monte Abatone, tomb 123, and Banditaccia, tomb 365), Tolfa (Museo Archeologico, Casterllina di San Pietro, tomb 2), and Veii. For parallel from the Olcott Collection at height 12.5cm, dated to ca.600BC, refer Pl.13, no.36; inv.no.PE 39 which came from 'Fiano' (presumably Fiano Romano, a town 40km north of Rome). 170 grams, 13 cm high (5 1/8 in.) Private collection of Dr Bruckner, Augsburg, Germany, 1950s. Schaefer family collection since 1959. Thence by descent to P. Schaefer. Alte Roemer, Hamburg, Germany. Private Australian collection. Accompanied by an illustrated two page collector's cataloguing document. Accompanied by a copy of a certificate of authenticity, export licence, and invoice from Alte Roemer, Hamburg, Germany. For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price

Fine condition.