Circa 7th century B.C. A piriform aryballos (perfume flask) with broad lip and strap handle, painted with circumferential bands of plain lines and dots, stylised leaves radiating around the base, dashes to shoulder and a series of lines radiating from the opening around the lip, contained within a roundel. Cf. Cherici, A., Ceramica etrusca della Collezione Poggiali di Firenze, Rome, 1988, 123f., no.112, pl.LXX c, (inv. CP 138). 36.4 grams, 64 mm (2 1/2 in.). Acquired 1980s-1990s. Collection of Mr H. N., Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, UK. The presence of perfume vessels in Etruria, especially Corinthian aryballoi, provides an informative record of Greek and Etruscan trade tendencies as well as local absorption of the aryballos as a style and a cultural item. Aryballoi contained perfume, but may have also held products such a cleansing oils, insect repellent, and embalming ointment. [No Reserve]