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Smith, Cecil Harcourt; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]
Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 3): Vases of the finest period — London, 1896

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ASKI. 361

E 757. ASKOS. Old No. 952. Ht. 2J in. Late coarse style.

{a) Hound couchant to r.
(b) Lion couchant to 1.

E 758. ASKOS. Old No. 948. Ht. 2§ in. Towneley Coll. no. 499. Surface injured, and

bottom restored. Drawing late and coarse.

(a) Lion springing to 1.
(B) Boar charging to r.

E 759. ASKOS. Ht. 2j in. Cameirqs, 1864. Tomb F 156. Hartwig, Mcistcrsch. p. 368, note 1.

Drawing late. Brown inner markings.

(a) Helmet with raised cheek-pieces (the inner part in black silhouette) to r.

(b) Shield lying on the ground, seen in perspective; device, a bull's head-
Above the shield is an object like a dolphin to r. Perhaps the artist has
misunderstood the design he was copying ; the bull's head is incorrectly drawn.

E 760. ASKOS. Old No. 958. Ht. 2-| in. Nola. Durand Coll. 1189. Drawing late and

florid. Eye in profile. Ends of hair and cord of necklace brown.

(a) Head of a woman in a saccos decorated with trefoils and a necklace
with pendant dots to r. In front of the head a flower with tendril springs from
the ground : behind the head, a conical object.

(b) The same to 1.

E 761. ASKOS. Old No. 959. Ht. 2{ in. Nola. Durand Coll. no. 1189. Style, imitation of

severe period. Eye in profile.

. On each side, a head of an ephebos to 1. between two tendrils (?). The
tendril on the r. of (b) is omitted.

E 762. ASKOS with tubular hole in centre. Ht. 2-Jin. Cameiros, 1S64. Tomb F 34. Drawing

inaccurate and careless.

On each side, a dolphin to r.

E 763. ASKOS with strainer and ring-shaped handle. Ht.2in. Kertch, 1848. Wants most of the

handle. Drawing late and coarse. The design occupies a frieze around the central strainer.

Panther (?) or dog ; and lion couchant confronted. Between the handle
and spout is a palmette.

E 764. ASKOS with spout in form of lion's head, and strainer in centre. Ht. (present) l| in.

Poli tis Chrysochon, Cyprus, 1890. Presented by the Cyprus Exploration Fund. Wants most
of the handle. Late coarse style.

The design occupies a frieze around the central strainer. Half of this is
occupied by the figure of a lion couchant to 1., whose head is formed by the
spout: on the 1. are a lion and tiger (?) couchant, confronted.

E 765. ASKOS in form of crab's claw. Ht. 3 in. Length 6 in. Nola. Pourtales Coll., 1865

(Cat. 417). Ant. du Cab. Pourtales, pi. 30, p. 122. The claw terminates at its upper end in the
neck of an askos, rising vertically, with the usual handle springing from the base of the neck
 
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