SOLD - Middle Bronze Age large painted jug.

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #319998
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An uncommon buff pottery slip painted round bottomed jug with single knopped handle and small "nipple" protrusion to the front. The body is painted in grey slip and decorated with extensive red wavy lines arranged in geometric patterns. Cypriot Middle Bronze Age 1900 - 1650BC damaged to rim and surface eroded in areas, as seen Size: 20 x 13cms Provenance. Ex Private Swedish collection C.F. Art of Ancient Cyprus, Desmond Morris - 1985

SOLD - Aug 06

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #319996
SOLD - Aug

A buff pottery jug with a single vertical handle and a folded and pinched spout. The body is decorated in a fairly unusual way with a series of broad vertical strokes, probably representing stylised sea-weed or algae. The vessel was produced in Cyprus but the decoration shows strong Mycenaean influences. Cypriot potters frequently copied slightly earlier Mycenaean wares in the latter part of the 2nd Millennium BC. Cypriot Early Iron Age (Geometric Period) 1050 - 950BC Intact. Size: 11 cms ta... Click for details

SOLD - May 2006 Greek Attic squat lekythos

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #319236
SOLD - May

A small glazed pottery squat lekythos. The majority of the red pottery body is glazed black with a reserved panel to the front decorated with a palmette in the Red Figure technique. Vessels such as this were used for storing and pouring oil. The broad disc lip with a slightly curved surface minimised drippage and loss of liquids which were otherwise expensive to replace. Greek, probably Athens, 5th Century BC. Repair to neck, surface abraded as seen. Size: 7.1 x 3.5 cms Provenance Ex: priv... Click for details

S O L D - 25th October 2005

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #319216
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An elegant small black glazed Attic pottery lekythos with black body and ray decoration to the shoulder. The lekythos was designed to contain scented oils which were used as we would now use soap. The oil was rubbed onto the body after bathing and removed with a bronze strigil. Small patch of restoration. Size: 10 x 4.7cms Provenance Ex: private Swedish collection. C.F. Athenian Black Figure Vases, John Boardman - 1974

sold - Attic 5th Century white ground lekythos

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #319215
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An Athenian red pottery lekythos decorated in the White Ground technique to the body and Black Figure technique around the shoulder. This lekythos is painted on a white ground with a horizontal band of ivy to the centre flanked by geometric borders. The shoulder is painted with black glazed rays. White Ground lekythoi were almost exclusively associated with votive dedications. They were placed in tombs and at shrines with offerings of valuable oils. This example is close to the Beldam ... Click for details

sold sept 05-

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #319200
sold sept

A hollow moulded light red pottery figurine of a standing fully-draped female holding a water vessel (hydria) on her head. The figure stands with her left leg bent at the knee and her right arm raised, her left hand is on her hip and holds what is usually classified as a wreath (though I believe that it is probably a support for the hydria made from organic fibres, hence why none survive). These figures of water-carriers were most commonly made at Knossos and Halicarnassos, we believe that... Click for details

Rare Greek Coin of Kassander, AE 18

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #266677

Kassander, who reigned from 319-305 B.C., was the son of Antipater. Antipater had been left in charge of Macedon while Alexander the Great left on conquests, but he barely outlived Alexander and died in 319 B.C. He was succeeded by his son Kassander, who was infamous for his cruelty. In 311 B.C., Kassander executed Alexander's widow Roxana and his young son, Alexander IV to secure his rule over the country. In 309, he declared himself king, but Macedon's power had already faded with the splinter... Click for details

Nice Greek Coin AE 18 - Philip II , Father of Alexander

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #266668

Phillip II of Macedon (359-336 B.C.) was the father of Alexander the Great, whose exploits were only possible due to the strong reign of his father. Phillip made massive reorganizations and innovations to the Macedonian infantry; he reinvented the army as a fast, lightly armored infantry that could break through enemy lines and create a gap for the elite Macedonian cavalry to break through. In conjunction with the weakening of the Greek city-states after centuries of war within between the city-... Click for details

Cute Greek Apulian Blackware Salt Dish

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #258570

This very choice salt dish comes from Apulia, a region of Greek colonies in Southern Italy that are widely known for pottery production. This blackware dish was used for serving salt with meals. Salt was the only spice that even approached common availability in the ancient world and was widely used. Dinner guests would simply take a pinch of salt from this open vessel and season to their tastes.

AGE: 400-350 B.C. ... Click for details

Nice Greek Gnathian Oinochoe

Archives: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek Pre AD 1000: item #178633

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