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Alabastron [Formerly Museum No. 14]
Late Corinthian, mid 6th century BC
Painted terracotta (h. 8.5 inches)
Frontal bull’s head on one side and a swan on
the other, with filling ornament of large incised rosettes picked out
with purple paint and a few crosses.
Literature: H.A. Payne, Necrocorinthia, a study of Corinthian art in the Archaic period (Oxford, 1931), p. 319, no. 1218; Winchester College Memorial Buildings: Department of Classical Art (Winchester, 1909), p. 14 (no. 14)
Provenance: Unknown, at Winchester College by 1909; stolen from Winchester c. 1965; sold Christie’s, 23rd February 1965, part lot. 160 (the first item), where purchased by Ernest Ohly (Berkeley Galleries)