Diameter: 10.1 cm

Set on a ring-foot, the body has thick walls with a carinated profile and a curving interior, decorated throughout in black glaze. A drilled hole in one side for hanging.

Provenance:

Art market, Paris, 1989

French private collection, acquired from the above

Literature:

Such cups were used for holding food, drink or as a salt cellar.  For similar, cf. B.A. Sparkes, L. Talcott, The Athenian Agora. Black and Plain Pottey, Princeton, 1970, pl. 32

£ 450.00