An Italo-Corinthian black-figured trefoil oinochoe , circa 575-550 B.C.

with high triple handle and rotelles on the rim, decorated in the lower register with two stags, two lions, and a bird, in the middle register with a stag, a bird, a lion, a doe, and two confronted lions flanking an owl, and in the upper register with an owl and two confronted lions flanking a siren, rosettes and dots in the field.

private collection (Christie's, New York, December 12th, 2002, no. 12, illus.)

Exhibition of Greek and Etruscan Arts, Tokyo, 1974, pl. 19
The Ancient and Modern Art in the Kurashiki Museum, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 47
Erika Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum: Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Mainz am Rhein, 1982, no. 18

Some repair to the body and mouth of the vessel, proper right side of the spout restored , paint abraded in areas, epecially on the shoulder.
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For another oinochoe by the same painter see Sotheby's, London, December 11th, 1992, no. 190.