S O L D - November 2005

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #425803
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A lovely large Athenian white ground lekythos. The body and shoulder of the vessel are painted with a white slip, the foot is reserved and the base, neck and handle are glazed black. The unfired decoration which would have adorned the body of the lekythos is now lost but the outlines of the glazed decoration on the shoulder hint at the original beauty of this piece. The upper part of the shoulder is painted with an elaborate palmette surrounded by foliate scrolls, below this is a single band o... Click for details

S O L D - 29th October 2005

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #423173
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A lovely burnished pottery wool-spinning counter-weight (spindle whorl) with incised decoration. The base is incised with three groups of parallel curved lines separated by groups of five short strokes. The lower part of the body is incised with five horizontal bands, the upper part appears to almost "swirl" with groups of incised diagonal curved lines radiating from the top. An unusual and wonderfully aesthetic object. Cyprus, Early Bronze Age, 2700 - 2200 BC Intact, areas of surface wear. ... Click for details

S O L D - 25th October 2005

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #423171
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A well modelled pottery head from a female figure, probably Aphrodite. The face is sharply detailed with strong features. The hair is arranged in a "melon type coiffure" with the back areas left undecorated. She wears a pair of round earrings. The head is formed from a solid ball of clay, the core being dark grey. Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. Greek, Hellenistic, c. 1st Century BC. Fragment from a figure, ancient firing crack to forehead. No repairs or restoration. Size: ... Click for details

SOLD - June 2006

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #423168
SOLD - Jun

A Burnished pottery bag shaped juglet with rounded handle and mottled orange and brown surface. Cypriot Early Bronze Age 2700 - 1900BC Intact with worn surface, as seen Size: 11 x 8.5cms Provenance Ex: private Swedish collection. C.F. Art of Ancient Cyprus, Desmond Morris - 1985

S O L D - November 2005

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #423164
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A Cypriot Late Bronze Age grey slip pottery amphora. The vessel stands on a hollow ring foot above which is a wide body decorated with a series of incised vertical ribs. Two handles extend between the the shoulder and the slightly flared rim. The surface of the red/pink clay was covered in a grey slip as was customary during this period of pottery manufacture in Cyprus. A lovely little amphora with very elegant lines and form. Cyprus, Late Bronze Age, 1650 - 1050 BC. One handle and two shar... Click for details

sold - Aug 05 - Athenian Black Figure lekythos

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #415767
sold - Aug

A damaged Athenian pottery lekythos, with traces of black glazed decoration. The lower body and the back of the handle are glazed black. The shoulder is decorated with two rows of radiating strokes. Traces of decoration to the body show a lattice-type design to the lower middle portion and ivy bands to the upper middle section. This is a very typical example of a Black Figure pot which also appears to have been painted on a white ground along the central panel. A lekythos such as this was us... Click for details

SOLD - Cypriot Bronze Age pottery drinking cup

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #415764
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A hemispherical red and black oxidised and burnished pottery drinking cup with a single pierced lug handle. A very elegant and beautifully proportioned piece, the cup balances perfectly on its rounded base. Cyprus, Early Bronze Age, 2700 - 2200 BC A small chip and an old crack to the rim as can be seen in the photos, otherwise intact. Size: 4.5 x 10 cms diameter. For similar examples please compare pieces published in:  Art of Ancient Cyprus, Desmond Morris - 1985.

Thracian Coin: Chersonese Silver Half Drachm

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #410273

The Thracians inhabited what is today Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and parts of Turkey. Herodotus referred to them as one of the most numerous and powerful civilizations in the world, and they would have been considerably more threatening to the Greeks had they been a united people. However, the Thracians were splintered into many tribes that only occasionally formed short-lived, dominant states. Accordingly, they were largely overlooked by historians for centuries, although recent findings of... Click for details

Greek Attic Black-Figure Lekythos

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #408018

The lekythos is a form of Greek pottery that was used as a personal container for oils or perfumes. The Greeks used olive oil for personal hygeine -- after hard exercise at the gymnasium, a wealthy man would pour a thin layer of oil on his skin and scrape it and the sweat off with a curved piece of metal called a strigil. This would remove the oil and the sweat, leaving the man (relatively) clean and moisturized. While ornate lekythos are commonly found as funerary objects, the small, portable s... Click for details

Choice Greek Gnathian Olpe / Mug

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #380010
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The Greek system of inheritance that passed all wealth to the oldest son was the driving force behind hundreds of years of Greek colonization. Sons without inheritances were forced to seek their riches through trade and ingenuity, and Greek merchants spread across the Mediterranean in search of wealth. Some of the most successful colonies and trading posts sprang up in Magna Graecia, the pre-Roman name for Southern Italy. Among these were the colonies of Apulia, for whom the creation and export ... Click for details