7th-6th century BC. A Bucchero chaliceposed of a carinated bowl, waisted stem and splayed foot, four standing caryatid figures to the circumference, supporting the bowl on their heads and steadying it with their arms and hands; wings, faces and anatomical detailing executed ing abination of raised and low relief. Cf. The British Meum, meum number 1853,0110.6, for a figure similar to those featured on the chalice; cf. Rasmsen, T., Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria, Cambridge, 1979, p.95; pl.28, nos. 128,129. 997 grams, 20cm high (8"). Private collection of Mr Robert Wilson (1941-), New York, A; an American experimental theatre stage director and playwright, who has been described as one of the world’s foremost avant-garde theatre artists. Fine Arts Signpany, 5 November 2017, lot 17. Private Atralian collection. Apanied by a copy of the previo collector's cataloguing document. The typology corresponds to the Rasmsen's typology of chalice 1a, the so called 'calici pentapodi' of Mingazzini, i.e. fitted with four supports and a central stem. Some scholar consider that the winged female caryatid may be linked to the goddess known as the Potnia Theron, or the Mistress of the Animals, derived from the Near Eastern goddess Astarte; in its Etrcan form, the winged goddess may be the prime female deity Uni.[A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions .]