A pair of Canosan Vases in the Form of a Woman’s Head

Can be purchased together or separately.  These graceful vessels were used to pour offerings of wine or milk onto the tomb of some ancient person–almost certainly a woman–who lived during the flower of the Classical age. The head itself may represent a goddess, perhaps a protector of women, or an idealized feminine beauty that still delights the senses. We are reminded of those long ago lives- -full of laughter, color, tears and dreams–which perhaps were not so very different from our own.