Fine Etruscan chalice supported by a tall, slender stem. Three parallel grooves and a sharply cut carination decorate the exterior of the bowl. Robust double molding on the stem, close to the flaring foot. Brilliant black Bucchero pottery with polished surface.
Rare shape commonly associated with the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci.
For a related example in Malibu, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1002468.
Ceramic, Bucchero ware
Etruscan, about 575-550 BC
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Large Etruscan/Campanian impasto ware amphora of biconical shape. The bulbous body with pairs of vertical ribs on each side. The tall neck strongly tapered in the middle.
The handles span from the slightly flared mouth to the shoulder.
Impressive vase in the Villanovan pottery tradition.
Hand-built dark brown impasto with carefully smoothed surface.
Ceramic, impasto ware
Etruscan/Campanian, Villanovan Period, late 8th century BC
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Orange-brown dish of shallow rounded floor with a flat rim enhanced with grooves. Standing on a low rounded foot ring.
Ceramic
Etruscan/Campanian, 3rd-2nd Century BC
D. 16.8 cm (6.6 in)
H. 5.4 cm (2.1 in)
Intact except for a small chip out of the rim lip. Surface wear in places.
Ex US private collection since the early 20th century

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Early Etruscan kyathos decorated with vertical lines and dots on the bulged shoulder.
The shallow bowl tapers to a flat base, the vertical neck with a ring handle connecting rim and shoulder.
Hand-built. Finely polished black ware turning to brown below the handle.
Ceramic, Impasto ware
Etruscan/Villanovan, 7th century BC
H. to handle 5.6 cm (2.2 in)
H. to rim 4.8 cm (1.9 in)
D...

Shallow bowl with cut out rim exposing five dovetailed segments. One with two lugs for suspension. Standing on a low stemmed foot.
Fine buff-brown clay covered with brownish glaze. Patches of silvery iridescence inside.
Interesting piece which reminds of examples made in metal.
Ceramic
Etruscan/Campanian, 4th century BC
D. with rim 12.7 cm (5 in)
H. 5.7 cm (2.2 in)
Intact, except for a restored chip out of the foot...

Rare Etruscan cup covered with red coating on the outside. The steep wall decorated with wavy white lines.
Standing on a small flat base. The bulbous bowl with a flat, outward curved rim.
Ceramic, impasto
Etruscan, White-on-Red ware, 650-600 BC
D. 9.3 cm (3.7 in)
H. 4.4 cm (1.7 in)
Rare and fine. Rim fragments reattached, with small restoration. Applied white color faded...

Small stemmed bowl made in grey bucchero. Shallow bowl with incurving rim, set on a flaring foot.
Rasmussen’s vase no. 275. Close in shape and size to Beazley Archive vase no. 9035479.
Ceramic, grey bucchero ware
Etruscan, 600-550 BC
D. 10.3 cm (4.1 in)
H. 5.6 cm (2.2 in)
Excellent quality and condition, with finely smoothed and shiny surface. Reconstituted from two fragments...

Anatomical votive offering in the form of an ear. Frontally molded and reworked with the modeling tool.
The Etruscans knew a great variety of votive terracottas, which they placed in their temples as thanksgiving offerings or wishes for healing.
Votive ears referred to diseases of the ear, but may have also been a request to the god to hear the prayers of the supplicant.
Terracotta
Etruscan, 4th-2nd century BC
H. 5.2 cm (2 in)
Intact and fine...

Anatomical votive offering in form of an eye. Frontally molded and reworked with the modeling tool.
The Etruscans knew a great variety of votive terracottas, which they placed in their temples as thanksgiving offerings or wishes for healing.
Some of the votive eyes found appeared with eyelids and the periocular tissue, while others just showed the eyeball. The first may have referred to disorders like conjunctivitis, the other to myopia and cataracts.
One-eyed owner Moshe D...

Uncommon Etruscan belt buckle with hooks ending in a female head flanked by a couple of lion heads.
The lions bent forward with ears laid back and teeth bared. Both with lenticular eyes and engraved mane.
The woman looks in the opposite direction and shows a pointed face with almond-shaped eyes. The strands of her hair are curled up in front of her chest, much in accordance with archaic style.
Hooks and loops appear on narrow rectangular frames with emphasized corners. Belts...

Rare Orientalizing belt buckle with hooks ending in phalli with small wings.
Hooks and loops appear on narrow rectangular frames, to which a leather or fabric belt was attached.
This type of buckles reflect the popularity of Near Eastern fashion in early Etruscan art.
For a related example, cf. acc. no. 54.170 in the Walters Art Museum database.
For further belt buckles, cf. items 93-95, pp. 79-80 in: Ines Jucker. The Italy of the Etruscans. Jerusalem 1991.
Bro...

Large skyphos with tapered body, rounded shoulder and straight lip. Oblique handles on the shoulder, standing on a ring base. Hard-fired ceramic decorated with horizontal bands of reddish glaze. Groups of wavy lines on the reserved handle zone.
Orientates on cups of the Thapsos Class and derived types.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase 9008878.
Etruscan, Italo-Geometric, 700-650 BC
Ceramic
H. 11 cm (4.3 in), D. rim 13 cm (5.1 in)
W. over han...

Fine hand-modeled amphora with ribs on either side of the belly. False cord decoration impressed on the ribs and at the join to the straight neck.
The handles span from the slightly flared mouth to the shoulder. They show notches on top and impressed triangles on the outside.
The base is slightly set off from the body. Carefully smoothed surface. Dendrite-like deposits in places.
Ceramic, Impasto ware
Early Etruscan, 700-650 BC
H 15 cm (5.9 in)
Intact, f...

Outstanding four-spiral fibula of the Amendolara type.
Made of two single wires coiled into opposing spirals. In the center a disc with embossed edge.
A separately worked fibula underneath with one end coiled to extend into a pin, the other bent down into a hook. The partially preserved second bar mounted crosswise for reinforcement.
All elements are held together by a rivet in the center.
The four-spiral fibula is a development of the double or spectacle fibula, whic...

Large Etruscan oinochoe of oval body. The flared neck pinched to form a trefoil shaped mouth.
The cylindrical handle spans from rim to shoulder. Standing on a splayed foot.
Rasmussen's oinochoe type 6a. The absence of a ridge at the junction between neck and shoulder and the lack of decoration gives this group a very plain appearance.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 9012079.
Ceramic, grey bucchero
Etruscan, 600-575 BC
H. 23 cm (9 in) ...

Burnished Etruscan chalice on a high flaring foot with a single ring on the stem.
The decoration consists of three grooves on the wall and a notched ridge below. The foot with faint horizontal bands in applied white.
Elegant example with glossy black burnished surface.
Rasmussen's chalice type 2d and close in shape to fig. 136, pl. 27 (pp. 98-99 and p. 22) in: Tom B. Rasmussen. Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria. Cambridge1979. The finding context of the example points t...

Etruscan kyathos of shallow form showing a frieze of subtle vertical ribs on the prominent pronounced shoulder.
The ribbon handle with outcurving edges arches from rim to shoulder. Small, slightly incurved base.
Ceramic, Impasto ware
Etruscan, 7th century BC
H. to handle 8.7 cm (3.4 in)
D. 15.2 cm (6 in)
Intact, pristine quality and condition. Reddish brown impasto with carefully smoothed surface. Traces of sinter. Collector’s sticker on the base.

Partly hammered and partly engraved bronze belt of elliptical form.
Richly decorated with nine central bosses surrounded by concentric circles. On the sides stylized waterfowls emerging from a herringbone design.
The sideward bosses with engraved with rays and circles look much like sun symbols.
Engraved fine-line waterfowls at each end of the belt. One of them rendered upside down.
The slightly flared edge of the belt with bands of short strokes, dots and pointed tr...