Canosan Kantharos

An ancient Canosan Greek kantharos, a wine cup, with high arching handles and molded faces at the interior join to the rim. The handles have support struts and thumb spurs. The cylindrical body flares out to the rim and is set on a slender stem with a medial ridge and a stepped foot.

Canosa, Apulia, Magna Graecia.

Ca. 330 - 300 BC.

Height: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm).

Canosa was a prosperous early Greek colony in Apulia. It became an important commercial center and producer of fine pottery in the Hellenistic Period.

cf.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv no. 1909 (09.192.1).

Formerly in a European private collection, acquired in the late 1950s.

Inv#: 3252

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$7,500