AN ANCIENT ETRUSCAN BUCHHERO SKYPHOS

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #768131

Graceful Etruscan drinking vessel with twin handles and concentric circular bands on the exterior. 5th/6th Century B.C. 6 1/2 inches handle span. 2 3/4 inches high. Handle and rim repaired. From an old New Jersey collection. Bucchero consists of carbon dust as a black pigment in this type of pottery.

AN ANCIENT CYPRIOT VESSEL

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #767956

Black on red-ware vessel set on a flat base with tapered body decorated with circular bands, cylindrical neck with flared mouth and side loop handle. 750-600 B.C. 4 inches high. Intact with encrustations. From an old New Jersey private collection.

AN ANCIENT CYPRIOT VESSEL

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #767955

Bulbous black on red-ware vessel set on a flat base decorated with circular bands, cylindrical neck with flared mouth and side loop handle. 750-600 B.C. 2 3/4 inches high. Mouth chipped. Otherwise, intact with encrustations. From an old New Jersey private collection.

A large amphora intact

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #767594
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Greco-Roman, c.2nd Century BC - 1st Century AD. An Egyptian copy of a late Greek or early Roman amphora of typical form with tapering body, large mouth and two large handles. Very well crafted with a linear addition in red pigment. Intact and on custom stand. H: 33". A rare example for the amphora collector.

East Greek terracotta palmette fragment from Phrygia

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #766392
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A moulded terracotta semi-circular architectural antefix fragment decorated with a stylised palmette. Traces of black and white pigment decoration are clearly visible. This architectural revetment would have been attached at the lower end of a line of roof tiles so as to break the fall of rain water and channel it into a guttering system. These palmettes would have been mounted in a continuous line around the entire roof of a major building. This item originates from an important municipal bui... Click for details

Ancient Greek Aryballos

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #762703

A Corinthian aryballos painted with a lotus bud motif. Aryballoi are often pictured on vases as part of the equipment of athletes. Aryballoi most likely contained the oil with which they cleaned their bodies, applying the oil and scraping it off with a strigil. Circa 550 BCE. Ht. 2 1/8th inches [5.3 CM], dia 2 1/16th inches [5.2 CM]. Intact with paint losses as shown.

Apulian Guttus with Lion, 350-300 BC

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #762527

Apulian guttus ornamented with an archaic fashioned lion on the medallion. The short head is emerging from a mane formed by four folds of overlaid hair. The feline is about to jump up. For a related guttus in the Louvre Paris (inv. no. N 2169 (ED 807)), cf. fig. 215 and pp. 393-395 in: Marie-Odile Jentel. Les Gutti et les Askoi à Reliefs Étrusques et Apuliens. Leiden 1976. Apulian, 350-300 BC. H. 9.2 cm (3.6 in), D. 10.3 cm (4.05 in). Intact, brilliant black glaze pitted in places. Ex Swis... Click for details

Apulian Guttus with Satyr, 350-340 BC

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #762525

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. 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. Apulian, 350-340 BC. H. 8.1 cm (3.2 in), D. 8.5 cm (3.3 in). Intact and of museum quali... Click for details

Attic White Ground Lekythos, 500-475 BC

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #762524

Peculiar variant of an Attic white ground lekythos. The white ground has been only applied on the upper section, just to the level on the checkerboard pattern on the frieze. The net pattern appears on the very smooth ceramic surface. Greek, Athens, 500-475 BC. 19.8 cm (7.8 in). Foot and neck are reattached, traces of a fingerprint on the neck. Surface on the left chipped in places, otherwise excellent condition. Ex German art market.

Attic Red-Figure Kylix, 400-375 BC

Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #758416

The flying Eros holding a strigil and a sponge, both attributes of athletes. The inside wall with tendrils and ivy leafs in applied red. The outside decorated with youths wearing cloaks and standing in front of large female heads. Athens, 400-375 BC. D. 14.9 cm (5.9 in), W. over handles 21.2 cm (8.33 in). Superb quality. Few fragments reattached. Face of one youth chipped. Ex European art market.