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Etruscan Italic Impasto Kernos ca. late 8th-early 7th Century BC. Of massive ovoid form, the fluted section of the body framed by horizontal ridges above and below, with stamped florals along the upper ridge, a white-painted double line and dot along the bottom ridge, a line and dotted scallop meander below the ridge, with white stippled rays interspersed with birds above the foot, the shoulders with four tripod bowls, each with white cross-hatchings below and along the stamped legs, with an inverted shallow bowl serving as a lid, the lid with a three letter graffito. Ex Christie's New York, 5 June 1998, lot 268. H. 15 1/2" (39.4 cm).