A Villanovan impasto ware lidded olla
Circa 8th-7th Century B.C.
Of brown burnished fabric, with ridged flared mouth, the spherical body decorated with a series of vertical ridges, the pair of looped handles with twisted ribbed decoration and recessed dot and concentric ring motifs above, with similar motifs surmounting the ribbed arches of the two nipple-shaped projections, the lid with four raised concentric crescentic motifs and a central knop with quatrefoil drooping projections, 43.5cm high (incl. the lid)注脚Provenance:
Private collection, New Mexico, acquired prior to 1991.