Etrusco-Corinthian Terracotta Chalice Circa 620-580 B.C. A cream-coloured shallow clay bowl with a flared rim, enhanced with burgundy and with two lugs for suspension; the high stemmed foot with a projecting rib in the middle of the stem, standing on a flat stepped base, decorated with bands, brown-glazed and reserved areas. 234 grams, 13.7 cm wide (5 3/8 in.). Auktionshaus Schwab, Landenburg, Germany, June 2009, lot 5534. With Galerie Ostracon, Zurich, Switzerland, 2015. Private Australian collection with collection number 15.03. Accompanied by an illustrated two page collector's cataloguing document. Accompanied by an Ostracon certificate of authenticity and legal statement from Dr. Bernhard I Muller. The shape is reminiscent of Etruscan thymiateria, which were used as incense burners. The two lugs on the rim would have enabled the chalice to be suspended from a wall; such lugs may have been a feature of domestic chalices, and not often found in those produced specifically for funerary context. The form is not known by exact analogies in Corinthian ceramics but finds its antecedents in impasto and Italo-Geometric ceramics of the 7th century in Etruscan territory. The form is frequently found in bucchero (cf. CVA Karlsruhe II, pl. 50.2). Similar Etrusco-Corinthian chalices have been found particularly in the Vulci area, from the last decades of the 7th to the first decades of the 6th centuries; the principal areas of manufacture were probably Vulci and Caere. For related examples, refer CVA Deutschland Mannheim, Reiss-Museum I pl. 39.4 (inv. 22), attributed to Vulci; CVA Grosseto – Museo Archeologico e d’Artedella Maremma II, pl.37.1 (inv. 23467), also attributed to the territory of Vulci; CVA Grosetto II, pl.37.2 (inv. 1613); also see CVA Roma – Museo Capitolini II, III C, pl.13.2-5 (Inv.269, 112, 14, 23 respectively). For the two lugs for suspension, refer CVA Budapest, Musée des Beaux-Arts I, pl.12.5-6 (inv. 50.1047); cf. Matteucig, PoggioBuco, for chalice from Tomb G: no.38, pl.XX, 2. The vessel was apparently buried close to a bronze artefact which left remains of rust on the foot. For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price