An Etruscan bucchero ware chalice
Circa mid 6th Century B.C.
The fluted bowl with pointed bosses evenly spaced around the rim, two notched bands at carination, on a high flaring foot with ridged stem, 20cm high 注脚Provenance:
Private collection, Europe.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1982, lot 449.
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.

For similar, see an example at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, acc. no. 83.AE.403, and for a related, more ornate example, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 96.9.78. Tall chalices such as this were common at Vulci, and probably mimicked the shapes of more costly silver and bronze tableware.