A Large Etruscan Bucchero Pottery Hydria, circa 6th Century B.C.

of broad rounded form with single pouring handle and twin lifting handles, the body molded in relief with lions, tongues, and teardrop-shaped ornaments.

Estate of Michael Taylor (Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, April 7th-9th, 1987, no. 188, illus.)

Repaired from large and smaller fragments, the top half of the vessel in better condition than the lower; must of the foot areas just above it are restored; but generally good for a bucchero vessel of this unusually large size.
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