590-570 BC. Attributed to the 'Late Warrior Frieze Vases', a black-figure terracotta piriform jar with drum-shaped mouth and pierced lug beneath, radiating painted lines to the upper face and neck, two tiered bands of advancing warriors each with crested helmet and red disc shield, rosettes between. Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.06.1021.19, on view in gallery 171, for a very similar perfume vessel.357 grams, 22cm (8 1/2"). From an old British private collection; formed between 1975 and 1985; previously in the private collection of Mr. F. Kohl, Bavaria, Germany; acquired in the early 1960s.