A Polychrome Buff-ware Amphora, Etrusco-Geometric , late 8th/early 7th Century B.C.

with high splayed foot, piriform body, slightly concave neck with flaring mouth, and double-arched handles each with crescentic ornament on top, the body painted overall in red and black with registers of various geometric ornaments, the main frieze containing panels with waterbirds, checkerboards, concentric circles, a rosette, and other motifs.

Lady Elizabeth Caroline Hamilton Gray (1800-1887)
Stella Pitt-Rivers, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Dorset (Sotheby's, London, July 13th, 1976, no. 509, illus.)

minor chips on rim and abrasions on handles, wear to paint in various areas and dark stains on body on both sides obscuring some of the designs
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Elizabeth Hamilton Gray is the author of a Tour of the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839, London, 1840.