Large Attic pelike of the Kerch style decorated with an Arimasp on horseback fighting off two griffins. The Amazon is riding a prancing horse, turns back and raises her sword-wielding arm above the head.
The woman wears a Phrygian cap and is clad in an oriental costume with trousers. Her defeated companion lays on the ground. The griffins with reserved wings.
Three draped youths on the reverse, the leftmost holding a staff...

Black-figure depiction of naked youths with clamydes that cover their shoulders and bystanders clad in cloaks. All figures hold spears.
The scene is framed with ivy garlands on the sides and buds alternating with dots on the marked shoulder. A row of tongues emerge from the ridged junction to the neck.
Applied red on the outer edge of the rim and the sideward rotelles, the ridged junction to the neck, the garments and the fillet of one youth...

Fine zoomorphic askos in the shape of a crouching cow.
The barrel-shaped body decorated with owls facing each other with their wings raised, the other side features a large (tuna?) fish. The owls rendered in silhouette technique, the fish with reserved eye and teeth.
The animal crouches on short straight forelegs, the hind legs are folded up under the body
Ceramic
Greek Sicilian, Selinunte Group, 450-425 BC
L. 13.3 cm (5.2 in)
H...

Attic red-figure cup with a nude athlete standing between a stele and an altar.
The right arm is outstretched towards the altar in front of him, with the left hand he holds a strigil close to his body.
The young man wears a purple fillet with a vertical spike at the front. The eye is depicted in profile. The hair over the forehead with a row of dangling dots...

Flat-bottomed aryballos with two neatly incised male busts showing big eyes and pointed chins. The hair is tied in a tuft (krobylos) by a fillet and falls gently along the shoulder.
The busts alternate with geese. Rosettes in the field. Radiating strokes on shoulder and rim.
Best parallel for the style is Utrecht Univ. 60, Male sirens facing swan, in: D.A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period (1988), 180:B-7.
Reconstituted from fragments...

Large black-figure skyphos decorated with reclining men facing rams. Female attendants on either side walk away as they look back.
The men rest on mats, their elbows propped on pillows, three loaves of bread at their sides...

Black-figure lekythos decorated with two heraldic lions looking back over their shoulders. Rosette and dots in the field.
The vase belongs to the Dolphin Group, which is named after the leaping dolphins on the shoulder. Our piece shows the later decoration of large inverted lotus wreaths.
For a related example cf. vase no. 1977.3.79 in the University Museums, University of Mississippi...

The lid decorated on both sides with a winged Eros seated on a rock and facing left. One figure holds up a mirror with his right hand, the other carries a dish with double hooks, a sash suspended underneath. Flowers in the field.
One Eros wears a kekryphalos with a bun at rear, the other a pointed cap. Both carry earrings, necklaces, bracelets, strings of beads around the chest, the left thigh and anklet, as well as sandals.
The figures are separated by palmettes...

Rare libation bowl with twelve egg-shaped cavities around the central omphalos. The recesses served to hold votive eggs.
On the inside of the segmented rim twelve neatly modeled youthful heads with Phrygian caps.
Egg-and-dart decoration along the rim, on top and around the base of the omphalos.
The surface is covered with a yellow wash to imitate metal prototypes...

A draped youth strides to the left and holds a sprouting tendril...

Handmade Daunian kyathos with horn-like projections on top of the high strap handle.
The pierced face of the handle with geometric decoration in orange and dull black.
The bottom of the bowl decorated with an hourglass pattern consisting of opposite black and red triangles.
The base with broad bands and a cross over a diamond motif at center.
The piece impresses with the fineness and radiance of the clay, as well as the vibrancy of the colors.
Exhibited 1993/9...

Large ornate vessel with wide funnel-shaped mouth and vertical handles alternating with raised left hands. The hands enhanced with stripes. Dots on the back of the hand, the forefinger and the little finger.
On the shoulder metopes with painted panels and dotted spaces over ivy garlands. For a closely related vase cf. no. 211 in: Electa Napoli. L’art des peoples italiques. Geneva 1993.
Ceramic
Daunian, Subgeometric II B, 475-425 BC
H. 28 cm (11 in)
D. 28 cm ...

Rare Attic red-figure cup-skyphos with draped young men.
The athletes on the left wear the spiked wreath for the winner of the torch-race and stand opposite draped youths.
Some hold a strigilis in their outstretched right hand.
The scene represents a ceremony performed after winning the torch-race.
In this type of race, a torch was passed in a relay. The goal was to finish the race with the torch still burning. As a reward the winning team was allowed to light the f...

The panels with extraordinary depictions of a gender-based division of labor.
The hunting scene shows a naked man with a spear grasping at a bird hidden behind a large ivy leaf which may represent the forest grove.
On the other side a woman with diminutive head and outstretched arms. Assuming that plants are denoted by contouring dots, she is standing next to three trees in her garden.
Figural depictions on this type of pottery are rare. Ingenuous style in silhouette techni...

Rare handmade askos of lenticular body and truncated conical neck.
The lip around the spout is shaped as an oversized disc. Its back was bent by the potter to create space for an unusual ring handle of square cross-section.
Decorated with orange and purplish black bands alternating with very thin fillets and diamond patterns. The front of the neck with chevrons, one of them spiky, both flanked by a branch or shrub. The base of the belly with elongated triangles.
The piece...

Attic red-figure askos decorated with a dog and a panther crouching on the domed top. The animals face the spout and are seen with one foreleg raised.
The panther has turned the head towards the viewer and shows a spotted coat.
The shallow vessel shows a low dome-shaped top, the small flaring spout raises obliquely from the shoulder; overarching handle. The flat base reserved with a tiny mold on the edge.
For a closely related example, cf. CVA Reading, University 1, 43, pl....

Large vase decorated with red-figure scenes. A chiton clad woman with a small box stands in front of a naked youth holding a taenia; the youth’s cloak is wrapped around his arm.
Volutes and flowers in the field, a discus placed between the heads.
Cloaked youths with strigilis and a walking stick on the reverse.
The side handles with a central ridge, the areas below show heavy palmettes with lateral volutes and bellflower blossoms. The neck with a laurel wreath.
The ...

Rare pouring vessel in the form of a sphinx shown recumbent on a raised base.
The fantastic creature shows a beautiful female head with chubby facial features. The curly hair is entwined with ivy leaves.
The imposing lion body with powerful clawed paws and short wings attached to the sides. The cord around the neck is knotted between the breasts.
The figure is conceived as a pouring vessel. Next to the wing and the rear handle is a raised ridge with a sieve-like inlet. The p...

Late Corinthian kylix decorated on both sides with geese flanked by griffin-birds. The geese turn their heads back. The griffins show crested heads, sickle-shaped wings and protruding tail feathers.
Black-glaze design on buff ground, incised details, red color on the wings and for some dots applied on the necks.
The kylix belongs to the Workshop of the Bird-Frieze Painter. The workshop began in 600-575 BC with quality-oriented pottery and shifted to coarser mass production around ...

Nice black-figure lekythos with men, two of them seated on fold chairs (okladiai). The men show nicely rendered heavy heads. They wear cloaks, some with faded bordures or dots, two of them holding staffs (?)
Branches without leaves in the field. Two rows of radiating strokes on the shoulder.
Ceramic
Athens, 500-480 BC
12.4 cm (4.9 in)
Intact and in excellent condition. Right-hand figure slightly discolored.
German collection, acquired in the German art ...

Large kylix with the sketchily depiction of a woman in the tondo. The lady takes a smell at a flower in front of her face. The style is cursory, the details keenly applied with a brush.
Singular Italic imitation of a Greek cup, executed by a local artist of limited experience.
For a comparable cup from the Peucetian settlement of Ruvo, cf. fig. 6.6 in: Ada Riccardi. The Italic People of Ancient Apulia. Cambridge 2014.
The firing process was stopped too late turning to a warm...

Small squat lekythos decorated in read-figure with the head of Hermes to the right. The winged pilos helmet with dotted feathers; the offset bottom of the helmet spotted.
The head with a short nose, mouth with protruding lower lip, heavy chin. A large mass of hair on the temple. A vegetal ornament in front of the head. Behind a dotted point. A reserved base below.
The eye, the base of the helmet and the wings are rendered with relief-line.
Lekythos of wide bell mouth, low n...

Attic black-figure band cup decorated with a lotus and palmette chain. The reserved tondo with concentric circles, a reserved band close to the inner face of the rim.
The gently rounded floor with a barely offset lip and upturned handles.
For a related cup in Geneva, cf. Beazley archive vase no. 5676.
Ceramic
Athens, 500-480 BC
D. 14 cm (5.5 in)
W over handles 19.2 cm (7.6 in)
H. to rim 8.3 cm (3.3 in)
Tiny craze along the tondo; surface of...

Handmade White Slip II ware bowl of deep, hemispherical body. With round base and wish-bone handle.
Made of red-brown clay covered with white slip (bluish tint) and decorated with brown ladder pattern. Hooked chain at the handle level, dot rows.
Old inventory number (161) written beneath the handle with ink. Museum card joined.
For an example from the same workshop, cf. reg. no. 1982,0726.1 in the British Museum database.
Ceramic
Cypriot, Late Bronze Age, 1375-...

Rare yellow-slipped patera with sculptural handle in the shape of a naked youth with arms upraised as if to support the shallow bowl upon his head.
The representation of the handle follows conventions prevailing since the Archaic Period.
‘Gilded’ pottery (ceramica dorata) is unusual in Apulia, but typically occurs in Canosa. Patera and oinochoe were there part of funeral sets to offer libations to the deceased.
For a set of patera and oinochoe in the Metropolitan Museum...

Fine red-figure lekythos decorated with a woman clad in a heavy himation, her wrapped hands in front of her chest. The finely pleated chiton underneath rendered with dilute glaze.
The woman stands in front of a column with prominent capital and base, on the right a suspended sash.
The frieze with a key pattern and top and a reserved ground line. Two bands of (faded) tongues on the shoulder. Outer edge and bottom of the foot reserved.
Published with H.H. Kricheldorf Auktione...

Pagenstecher lekythos showing a goose with high swung neck, massive body with distinct wing tips, and detailed feet.
The beak once rendered with white color, faint discoloration of the eye. Above the bird a dot rosette.
Ascending tendrils on the sides, a linear palmette on the back.
The decoration scheme is characteristic for the Sicilian Marianopoli-Gela Group.
The vase is quite heavy and thus thick-walled – no doubt to limit the volume of the precious liquid it ...

Daunian bag-shaped vessel enhanced with a carefully rendered female protome just below the straight rim. The head with large lentoid earrings (?) and a necklace: the hair painted blue, short strokes along the body.
A rounded strainer type spout at rear and a strap handle to the side.
Buff colored vessel with red-brown and dark blue bands, a band of diamonds around the belly.
For further bird-like female protomes cf. items no. 36, 39, 46 and 49 in: J. Chamay, Ch. Courtois. L...

Attic red-figure askos decorated with a wild goat and a lion on the domed top.
The goat springs to right and is seen with one foreleg raised. On the facing side the body of a lion, in a crouched, ready to jump position. The combination of wild goat and lion is rare.
For a nearly identical goat combined with a satyr, cf. British Museum, item E734. Beazley Archive vase no. 6019.
The head of the lion, the small flaring spout and part of the overarching handle are missing.

From the Greek colonies in southern Italy. Trefoil oinochoe depicting a nude satyr, also known as a silenus or silenos, typically portrayed as a male figure with ears and a tail, said to be resembling features of a horse, and with a large phallus, the sides decorated with floral design. 3rd/4th Century B.C. 5 1/4 inches high. Intact. From an old NYC collection.

Large tan colored kantharos decorated with ivy tendrils ending in corymbs. A checkerboard band with circular incisions underneath. Bands of brownish glaze at the rim, the rounded bowl and the flared foot. The vertical strap handles with lines and stars on the outside.
The tapering wall offset from the shallow rounded bowl, set on a high flared foot.
The kantharos is an attribute of Dionysos, the Greek god of vine and vegetation, whose cult was widespread in the Greek speaking world...

Intriguing Daunian kyathos featuring an incurving shallow bowl and a handle that widens towards the top to form stylized horns, a tiny animal head inserted in between.
The cream-hued surface shows a delicate linear decoration, both on the handle and on the outside of the bowl.
For a kyathos from the same workshop, cf. vase no 202 in: Electa Napoli. L'Art des Peoples Italiques. Geneva 1993.
Ceramic
North Daunian, Sub Geometric II, 550-400 BC
H. to handle 10.7 c...

POTTERY WINE PITCHER
Greek - Hellenistic, 300 - 100 BC
Time of Alexander the Great

Beautifully made with a shaped neck, rim folded outwards and a ring base

Dimensions:
Height: 21 cm
Diameter: 17 cm
Height on stand: 24 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the biblical lands ...

Large bulbous vessel topped by cylindrical spouts and a twofold handle between them. One spout with a red strainer on the top, the other with red wash inside and a strainer on the base.
Decorated with blue-black lines, wave scrolls, an undulating line with ivy leaves and a chain design. Ornaments below the handle, floral motifs near the base.
For another larger than usual example with comparable decoration, cf. Beazley Database, vase no. 9002188.
The so-called listata styl...

Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this outstanding Greek kylix with original pigment and intact handles. This piece features a grapevine design around the perimiter with the highlight being the artisan signature on the bottom of the p;iece. 2 5/8" tall by 7 5/8" across the handles. Greek, 4th Century B.C. Provenance provided to purchaser.

Two-handle Cypriot juglet decorated with groups of concentric circles to each side of the shoulder and narrow bands around the spherical body.
The tall neck flaring to a funnel-shaped mouth; the handles attached to the neck-ridge and the shoulder. Standing on a narrow disc-base.
Hard-fired ceramic with polished orange-brown slip, decorated with black paint.
Closely related, slightly larger, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1003687.
Ceramic
Cypriot, Middle Iron Age,...

The medallion decorated with the head of a satyr with wild locks and curled heavy beard. The face shows a fleshy nose, full lips and wide open eyes topped by marked eyebrows. The bold head with fine floccus. Goat-like ears.
Satyrs and silens were a very popular subject in the decoration of gutti.
The head is from the same mold as inv. no. 20187 in the Bari Archaeological Museum, cf. fig. no. 81 (T84) in: Fernando Gilotta. Gutti e askoi a rilievo italioti ed etruschi. Roma 1985.

Low bodied Attic jug with horizontal flanges at the belly and the base. The beaked spout flanked by two applied knobs rendered as rotelles. The high-swung strap handle from neck to shoulder.
The cushion shaped top with five delicate palmette stamps linked by very fine incised arcs.
The reserved incurving area between the flanges and the broad flat base show the distinct orange-red color of Attic clay.
For a related Atticizing epichysis from Northern Apulia cf. item no. 73 in...

A very beautiful tall figural alabastron in form of Kore, Eastern Greek, Middle of the 6th century BC.

The portrait is in the tradition of the Kore representations, here as a young elegant woman holding a bird in her left hand, red-brown terracotta.

Height: 18,2cm.

Condition: Good Very fine, completely intact with very minor wear and deposits.

Ex. Old Austrian Private Collection, 1960-1990.

Beautifully shaped oinochoe covered with a black metallic glossy varnish of excellent quality.
The flat shoulder decorated with radiating strokes in applied red. The body with a meander and a wavy line with circles in the interstices. The handle area framed by vertical lines.
The high swung handle arching from the trefoil mouth to the shoulder.
The concise modeling orientates on jugs made in metal.
For a closely related vase, cf. acc. no. 1971.11.14 in the Metropolit...

The medallion decorated with a Siren seen from the front, she appears between volutes and flower tendrils. The nice head with a polos crown, the full bosom and the wings point to a Siren.
Jentel calls the figure ‘monstre en rinceau’ (Monster within Scrolls), cf. fig. 143 f. in: Marie-Odile Jentel. Les gutti et les askoi à relief étrusques et apuliens. Leiden 1976.
For a closely related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1008608.
Ceramic
Apulian, 350-325 BC

Campanian squat lekythos decorated with the head of a woman wearing a segmented sakkos sparing a tuft at the temple. The Campanian headdress is stitched along the joins and leaves a bun at rear.
Eye and eyebrow are indicated with short lines, mouth and nostrils with tiny dots.
Tiny lines to extend the round chin. The woman wears a necklace and an earring.
The sideward tendril with scrolls that frame vestigial blossoms. A phiale in the field, the neck with black tongues.

Greek perfume vessel of cylindrical body tapering at the neck with flat everted rim and a delicate ridge around the shoulder. Small depression below the rounded base; polished surface.
Alabastra would have held scented oil and, based on paintings on pottery, were frequently owned by women for use after bathing.
Alabaster
Greek, 5th century BC
H 8.3 cm (3.3 in)
Intact, rare shape, exquisite make. Comes without stand.
Ex inventory Herbert A. Cahn, Basel (...

Pointed aryballos decorated with compass-drawn scales highlighted with purple dots.
Tongue pattern down the shoulder, above the foot and on the flattened rim. Zig-zag decoration on the strap handle.
For a related, less pointed aryballos, cf. British Museum inv. no. 1860,0201.27.
Ceramic
Early Corinthian, 625-600 BC
H. 10.8 cm (4.3 in)
Fine condition. Intact with peeled off areas on the applied glaze.
Ex South German private collection, since the ...

Hand-modeled bowl of hemispherical body with a single handle at the rim. The base rounded.
The burnished surface with a red-brown slip and purple-red bands of wavy lines that form a cross on both the inner and outer surface. Purple-red lines on the handle.
For a related example, cf. British Museum database no. 1884,1210.103.
Ceramic
Middle Cypriot ,1850 BC-1550 BC
D. 15.4 cm (6.1 in)
W. over handle 18.4 cm (7.2 in)
H. bowl 7 cm (2.8 in)
Fin...

Daunian krater with bulbous body, short funnel-shaped mouth and slightly upturned handles.
The shoulder area with bluish-black bands and raised triangles, metope-like spaces within thin vertical lines. Hanging semicircles inside the funnel opening.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Database vase no. 1005779.
Ceramic Daunian, Subgeometric II, 550-400 BC
H. 18.5 cm (7.3 in) W. over handles 30 cm (11.8 in)
Lower part assembled from fragments. Minor losses at th...

Daunian krater with bulbous body, short funnel-shaped mouth and slightly upturned handles.
The shoulder area with bluish-black bands and hanging angles underneath.
Ceramic
Daunian, Subgeometric II, 550-400 BC
H. 16.3 cm (6.4 in)
W. over handles 29 cm (11.4 in)
Small shard out of the mouth restored, otherwise intact and fine. Excellent condition with well-preserved colors.
Swiss private collection, acquired March 2006

The authenticity ...

Rare Daunian vessel with short spout and vertical loop handles. The holes for the strainer pierced from inside the vessel.
The body decorated with bands and wreaths in applied black glaze. Palmettes next to the mouth and handles.
The vessel suffered a blow during the drying phase, which led to shrinkage cracks on the shoulder. The vase was nevertheless fired and remained reserved for cult purposes. Ceramic
Daunian, Subgeometric IIIB, 330-300 BC
H. to spout 15.5 cm (6...

Daunian krater with globular shaped body and funnel-shaped lip. The vertical loop handles on the shoulder area alternate with two red colored plates.
Brown-red and bluish geometric decoration around the body, wavy lines with ivy leaves at the handle area, hanging semicircles inside the funnel opening.
The geometric decoration is cold-applied and slightly rubbed in places.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Database, vase no. 1009620.
Ceramic
Daunian, Subgeomet...

Salmon-colored "Plastic" head of a feline, with defined eyes, alert ears, whiskers and feline expression. Vent hole on back. 2 5/8 inches high. 6th Century BC. Originally acquired from Royal Athena gallery, ex. Dr. Jean Laufenburger, Geneva. ‘Plastic vases’ are vessels made in figural shapes, including animal figures. Their name derives from the Greek verb plassein meaning ‘to mould’. These vessels were especially popular in the Greek world during the middle of the 7th century BC to ...

POTTERY WINE PITCHER
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 3rd - 1st B.C.

Cylindrical-shaped neck, ring base with and a single handle Measurements:
Height: 16 cm
Diameter: 14 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm

Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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# 9605

Large Campanian guttus decorated with four red-figure palmettes and applied white. On top a hollow sieve aperture with pierced holes.
A loop handle and an inclined spout on the rounded shoulder.
For a related guttus, cf. CVA Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, 51, pl. (188) 42.14.
Ceramic
Greek, Campanian, 4th century BC
W. 15.5 cm (6.1 in)
H. to handle 7.4 cm (2.9 in)
Intact, good quality and condition. The black glaze with minor wear in p...

The vessel features a reel-shaped body with stepped foot and a flange. The doomed top with the head of Medusa at center. Medusa is rendered with a round face and curls ending in snake heads.
The pyxis is made in one piece and open at the bottom. The piece was not intended for concrete use and served as richly decorated burial object.
The surface shows remains of the original white engobe with gilded areas.
For a related example, cf. Ars Antiqua Auktion IV, Lucerne, December...

PAINTED POTTERY SHALLOW BOWL
Greek - Hellenistic period; 300 - 100 BC
Time of Alexander the Great

With a ring base and two shaped handles on the side.

Dimensions:
Height: 7.5 cm
Diameter: 18 cm

Condition: Minor chip as shown otherwise intact

Found Jericho "Jordan Valley" Holy Land

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#643287

DECORATED POTTERY "FROG TYPE" OIL LAMP
EGYPT, HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 100 BC

This is a regional frog style lamp exclusively produced in Egypt and found in the regions around it, between ca. 300 BC - 100 AD.

Dimensions:
Length: 8.5 cm
Width: 7.5 cm

Condition: Good condition

Found in Israel

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Ancient Greek Terracotta head of Apollo or Alexander the Great, the head with traces of yellow paint . Mounted on a small pedestal a great piece . Size Head only H 2.75" W 1.75" D 1.75" over H 3.5"

An attractive Volute Krater - an amphora like vessel - with Volutes at the top of each handle, with reddish slip, Canusia, Southern Italy, Greek period, c. 4th. century BC.

An elaborate type at an affordable price!

Height 27,4 cm, width with handle, 15,8 cm.

Condition: Very fine for the fragile type. Crack at the top and handles / rim, reattached but the vessel looks nice with original surfaces and greyish-brown patina.

Ex. Austrian Private Collection...

Onion-shaped vessel with finely impressed ribs on the rounded exterior of the body.
The flat shoulder topped by a narrow neck with flared bell mouth. The thin handle curves from neck to shoulder.
The vessel is covered with an attractive jet black glaze that creates a brilliant reflection in any light.
Reserved just above and underneath the base.
For comparable examples, cf. Beazley Archive database nos. 9014274 and 9032276.
Ceramic
Apulian, 350-300 BC

TERRACOTTA PERFUME JAR
GREEK - HELLENISTIC PERIOD 330 - 50 BC
"Time of Alexander the Great"

Globular body with a ring base and a shaped neck folded outwards

Measurements:
Height: 13 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Height on stand: 17.5 cm

Condition: Minor repair hard to see otherwise intact

Found in Hebron south “City of Abraham” south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

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Vase of outstanding provenance, acquired in 1962, well before the UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972.
Black glazed sieve guttus with a raised molding around the perforated sieve at centre. Pairwise cannelures on the cushion-shaped body. The ring handle placed at right angles to the straight spout. Ring foot reserved underneath.
For a related example, cf. inv. no. Cp 3333 in the Louvre Museum database.
Ceramic
Greek Sicilian, 4th-3rd century BC
D. 9.6 cm (...