Circa 360-320 BC A gorgeous, black-glazed pottery guttus (or guttos, oil-lamp filler) bearing the feminine face of a gorgon atop the tondo, perhaps representative of Medusa. The vessel exhibits a spool-shaped foot, a wheel-form body with dozens of vertical incisions around the periphery, a protruding ring handle, and a cylindrical spout with an everted rim, all enveloped in lustrous black glaze. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number: 1971.11.10. Size: L:125mm / W:115mm; 135g Provenance: Property of a central London Gallery; formerly in a South English estate collection; acquired in the 1990s from Andre de Munter, Brussels, Belgium; previously in an old European collection.