An ancient Etruscan Pontic black-figure cup with one handle. The upper register has an armed warrior between two boars; the lower with five geese facing left with wings outspread; palmettes framing the handle.
Etruscan Pontic Group vases are closely related to East Greek Ionian vases. It is assumed, that they were produced in Etruria by craftsmen who had emigrated from Ionia. Their misleading name was coined by Ferdinand Dummler on the basis of a vase depicting an archer, whom he mistook to be a Scythian from the Black Sea region (or the Pontus).
$12,500
