SOLD - APRIL 06

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #360818
SOLD - APR

A very attractive hand modelled pottery figure of a pig or hedgehog. The body is decorated with circular pricked decoration to denote fur. The head is rendered with round ears and a long snout marked impressed with nostrils and mouth. Roman, c. 1st Century AD Front right leg restored. Size: 5.4 x 2.6 x 2.7 cms Ex. UK private collection.

sold - Aug 05 Greek Ionian painted pottery aryballos

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #360815
sold - Aug

An unusual painted pottery aryballos type vessel from the Ionian Islands. The vessel is painted to the body with two simple horizontal bands and the foot and lip are also painted with a further plain band each. The rim is shaped with a very fine overhanging collar. An interesting example of an otherwise ordinary Corinthian shape being copied and refined by another Greek state. Vessels of this shape were used for the storage and transportation of oils. Greek, Ionian Islands (Western coast), 6... Click for details

SOLD - Greek 4th Century BC lekythos

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #360814
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An elegant pottery lekythos type vessel decorated to the front with a head in profile framed by palmettes to either side. The profile head is painted in the South Italian Red figure technique and wears a decorated hat and also a necklace. The figure's hair is showing from under the hat around the ear area. Above the head a row of painted rays adorns the neck of the vessel. Greek, South Italian Colonies, probably Apulia, 4th Century BC. Intact, surface worn. Rim chipped. Size: 10 x 5 cms Pro... Click for details

SOLD - Greek 5th Century BC pottery head

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #360811
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An attractive moulded pottery head from a female figure. The facial features are well modelled and the hair is decorated with a plain band or fillet. Intact as seen, a small chip from the nose. Greek, 5th Century BC, possibly from Cyprus. Mounted on an old wooden base Size: 10 x 6.5 cms Provenance Ex: private UK collection.

SOLD - Greek Athenian black figure lekythos

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #336141
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An Athenian black figure pottery lekythos decorated with a charioteer being drawn by a team of horses. The charioteer's clothes are highlighted in white. The rim and lower part of the vessel is glazed black and the shoulder is decorated with two bands of radiating strokes. It is thought that these lekythoi were associated with horse races and awarded as prizes, presumably containing valuable oils. Intact save for a repair on the rim, a little worn in places. Greek, 6th Century BC Size: 16 x... Click for details

U17

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #320036
U17

A black glazed pottery shallow plate with slightly raised rim and short foot. This vessel was produced in Apulia, around modern day Bari, South Italy. Size: 14 x 2.5cms

SOLD - Greek 6th Century BC painted terracotta fragment

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #320034
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A rare Clazomenian terracotta fragment, probably from a sarcophagus, decorated with painted detail. One side is painted in dark red with an interlocking rope-twist pattern below palmettes. There are traces of a "Greek Key" pattern to another side. Clazomenae was a Greek colony located on the Western coastline of modern Turkey. This type of large terracotta pottery is unique to the area. 550-500 BC Fragment Size: 22 x 14 x 10 cms Published: Bonhams Fine Antiquities 8/11/01, incorrectly attrib... Click for details

Sold - Greek painted pottery lekanis

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #320025
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A Greek painted pottery lekanis with lid, decorated with "Ladies of Fashion". The lid is painted with four confronting female heads, arranged as two pairs of confronting profiles. Each head has a bag-shaped hair-arrangement framed by two bands or diadems. A triple-drop earring is also depicted on each portrait. The lower part of the lid is painted with black dots. The lower portion of the lekanis is glazed black, except for a band of stylised olive branches to either side. The lekanis was a l... Click for details

S O L D - November 2005

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #320016
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A Greek black glazed pottery lekythos with an ovoid body and single loop handle. The surface is glazed except for an area between the lower body and foot. Greek, 5th or 4th century BC Spout lost, base chipped and partially restored. Size: 10.5 x 5.8 cms Ex. Scottish private collection.

SOLD - June 2006

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #320011
SOLD - Jun

A buff pottery storage vase with bulbous body and flaring rim. The shoulder retains traces of red painted banded decoration though this has mostly eroded. Chip restored to rim, otherwise intact Cyprus, Geometric Period, Early Iron Age, 1050 -650 BC. Size: 9 x 5.7 cms Provenance: Ex: Private English Collection.