**Originally Listed At $450**

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Campania, Teanoware, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. A beautiful wheel-thrown pedestaled Teano Ware polychrome vessel, the central receptacle with a flat rim, and supported by a concave rounded foot with a decorative everted ridge. The rim is beautifully-adorned with incised flowering vines with blooms and leaves delineated in added white pigment. Teano ware is a genre of ceramics created in the last quarter of the 4th century BCE to the first half of the 3rd century BCE and named for the ancient Teanum Sidicinum, the primary site in northern Campania where they were found, most likely near their main center of production. Black is the primary color with added white pigment used for the painted decoration. This vessel also shows an incised central flower on the tondo as well as fine red miltos used to highlight the incised grooves. This form is a typical example of Teano ware in its shape and decoration, most likely used for votive or funerary purposes. Size: 3.8" W x 2.3" H (9.7 cm x 5.8 cm).

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection

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#135341

Repair to top of pedestal neck and portion of rim. Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, fading to black, white, and red coloration, with small nicks to foot and underside of rim. Small stable pressure fissure underneath foot. Light earthen deposits in some areas. Nice silvery iridescence across most glazed surfaces, and great areas of craquelure underneath rim.