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Villanovan pottery urn with lid in the form of a crested helmet Villanovan pottery urn with lid in the form of a crested helmet
Villanovan pottery urn with lid in the form of a crested helmet VILLANOVAN POTTERY URN WITH LID IN THE FORM OF A CRESTED HELMET

With a handle on one side, a flaring rim, and incised geometric designs of meanders, triangles, hatched fields, and swastikas. The lid with smilar incised decoration.

Ex collection (H 71) of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin.

8th-9th Century BC

H. of urn 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm.); H. of lid 9 in. (23 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2009, no. 125
HMQ52
$18,500


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