Canosan Kantharos

An ancient Canosan Greek kantharos with high arching handles with attached support struts and thumb spurs, set on a slender stem with a medial ridge and a stepped foot.

Canosa, Apulia, Magna Graecia.

Ca. 330 - 300 BC.

Height: 5 in. (12.8 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.

Formerly in the Heidi Vollmoeller collection, Zurich, acquired in 1988; Christie's, London, October 29, 2003, lot442; subesquently, collection of Jerome Eisenberg, New York.

Inv#: 9425

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$4,500

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