Early Helladic Terracotta Tankard

Culture: Griechisch

Period: 2200-2000 B.C.

Material: Terracotta

Dimensions: 14.8 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 2371

Provenance: From the estate of the New York collector Daryl P. Gruber-Kulok (1960-2019). Thence in a New York gallery.

Condition: On the rim some chips, otherwise intact.

Description: Large Bronze Age terracotta jug of reddish clay with brown painting. The handmade vessel with a flat base, spherical corpus at the bottom and a cylindrical shape at the top. The rim slightly pulled outwards. A handle on the side. In the lower area painted grid decoration, above triangles in a line pattern, inside semi-circular lines. A rare example of early Aegean ceramics. Probably from Lerna.