Black-glazed skyphos with delicate lines on the reserved zone above the foot. Added red on the flaring ring foot, the reserved underside with carefully designed concentric circles.
The shape is related to the Samos group; cf. item 973, p. 309 in: H. Payne. Necrocorinthia, A Study of Corinthian Art in the Archaic Period. Oxford, 1931.
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Roman bronze attachment with the winged Eros is holding a phial with both hands to pour out some liquid.
A cloth is wrapped around the god’s belly, the upper end flapping in the wind in front of the wing.
The appliqué was attached to a bronze vessel as discernible from the remains of solder at rear.
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Pale blue Roman glass carafe with rounded body, the glass pinched out around the body to form eight vertical ribs with knobs. The flat base slightly incurved. The tall tubular neck fairly flaring to a plain rim.
Free-blown blue-green glass
H. 11.1 cm (4.4 in)
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Black-glazed vessel with ribbed body. The low pedestal foot with double molding. The vertical handles are combined with flat spurs at top.
For the same shape cf. lot no. 53 in: J. Hayes. Greek and Italian Black-Gloss Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto 1984.
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Archaic naked dwarf standing in squat position and holding his hands in front of his belly. The head with big almond-shaped eyes and nice archaic smile.
This kind of paunchy dwarf figurines is thought to be inspired by the Egyptian Paitakos, the dwarf god patron of children.
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Handmade southern Italic vessel of bag-shaped body and double strap handles.
The top of the rim enhanced with tiny dots, encircled inside and outside by black lines. Panels with red band and four semicircular lines with short vertical strokes at center. Horizontal lines on the handles.
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Bellied body with a sloping shoulder curving up to form a slight neck. Applied red and black decoration below the short flaring rim.
For similar decoration on the belly cf. plate 49 in: Ettore de Juliis. La ceramica geometrica della Peucezia. Rome 1995.
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Mummyform shabti with with expressive features wearing a tripartite wig and a false beard. The crossed hands holding pick and flail. A small seed bag suspended over the figure’s left shoulder.
The shabti is standing on a pedestal and provided with a rudimentary back pillar.
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Rare Etruscan miniature kyathos with shallow bowl and tall vertical handle in the shape of a stylized animal head with pronounced horns. The flat base shows an impressed cross and dots.
Kyathoi were used for drinking wine at symposia held by the Etruscan elite. The symposium was a Greek custom adopted by the Etruscans, who depicted these banquets in paintings on the walls of their tombs.
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Uncommon hand-modeled Villanovan kyathos with broad rounded body tapering to a flat base. The strap handle with two stylized horns.
The kyathos belongs to the Ansone Culture which was located in Campania and formed part of the Villanova culture.
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