An ancient Attic Greek black-glazed piriform amphoriskos, tapering to a ring foot; twin handles join shoulder and neck; around the body is a stamped key block meander; below and above is a row of stamped palmettes.
Apulia, Magna Graecia.
Ca. 5th century BC.
Height: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.).
Cf.: The Beazley Gifts 1912-1966, p. 107, no. 397, pl. LV; Oxford CVA, I, pl. 40, no. 10.
Formerly in the collection of Jerome Eisenberg, New York.