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Sweet Greek Bronze Squat Lekythos browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques:Regional Art:Ancient World:Greek:Bronze: Pre AD 1000: Item # 768450
Apolonia Ancient Art 290 Fillmore St. #D Denver, CO. 80206 303-321-7351 gallery Guest Book $3800.00 |
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| This sweet Greek bronze vessel is known as a "squat lekythos", and dates to the second half of the fourth century B.C., circa 350-300 B.C. This intact vessel is approximately 3.5 inches high by 3.5 inches wide at the top. This attractive piece has an exceptional emerald dark green patina with dark blue and light brown deposits. There are also minute lines that are extremely fine that run around the main body of the vessel, and it took an artist with a great deal of skill to engrave these fine lines around the vessel. This type of vessel was used as a perfume vase, as it contained a valuable oil and/or unguent. The very wide, funnel-shaped mouth enabled one to control the flow of the liquid and this also served as a platter for application. This piece was used by a wealthy woman, as this type of vessel is rare in bronze, and this vessel was an essential component of her toiletry. An analogous example was sold in Christie's Antiquities, New York, June 2001, no. 165 ( $5,000.00-$7,000.00 estimates, $5,875.00 realized.) Another example of this type ( 4.25 inches high.) was found in Grave Beta, Dervini, Greece, and is now seen in the Museum of Thessalonike. For this piece see "The Search for Alexander" by N. Yalouris, Little, Brown and Company Pub., 1980, no. 133, page 169. This type of vessel was also produced in silver and is extremely rare, and usually does not have the fine line design as the piece offered here shows. Ex: Private New York collection. I certify that this piece is authentic as to date, culture, and condition: | ||
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