Ancient Greek, Ionian cup from circa 500 B.C. This ceramic has a light-tan clay foot with black bands above and below. Measures 2-1/2"H x 8"W handlespan. This cup was most likely used for drinking wine. Has some areas of rim repair plus surface losses however else in good condition and nice example.

Provenance: Private Florida collection formed in the 60's.

For Ionian type cup see Sabrina Boldrini 1994, Boardman and Hayes 1966, and Villard and Vallet 1955. Cf...

Sicilian terracotta pottery lekanis painted with two female heads (Lady of Fashion) Painted in red-figure technique on each side of the lid and enlivened with added white paint, palmettes between the heads, a panel of vertical strokes on the upper part of the bowl. Made in Sicily and dates to circa 330-310 BC. Measures 7"D x 4.5"T and intact.

Provenance: Private Florida collection formed in the 60's.

For reference see: Green, J...

Here you find an elegant and large Apulian Red-Figure plate decorated with the popular 4th century BC, "Lady of Fashion". The female head is illustrated facing left and adorned with a radiate stephane, ribbon sakkos, necklace and earrings. This antiquity is in excellent condition said for a small hairline as seen in photo. Measures 8.5" inches or 21.6 cm in diameter!

Literature: A. D. Trendall and A...

Here you find an exquisite antiquity from Southerm Italy. Dates to circa the 4th century B.C. The Messapian culture migrated to Southern Italy from Illyria around 1000 BC. They were best known for their trozella shaped pottery, they used black lead-based glazes in geometric and floral designs. This beautiful example has a deep black band with band of floral designs and central band in tondo. It was pierced in antiquity for suspension. Measures 7.5"D x 1"H, intact and in excellent condition...

Beautiful ancient Stamnos from Southern Italy. Artifact dates to circa the 5th century BC. The Messapians were well known for their pottery making skills and are widely known for their famous trozella shaped pottery. This lidded stamnos has floral decoration on the lid and band on shoulder and base. Colour and pottery is typical of Messapian art. Measures 5" inches tall.

Provenance: Private Florida collection formed in the 60's, US art auction.

Here you find a beautiful pottery example from Canosa, Italy of the type you would find in a museum. Large lidded, double-spouted askos from the Native Italic community that existed along side both the Greeks and Etruscans in the period between the 8th to the 4th century B.C. This example would date to approx. the 4th century B.C., during the time the Ancient Greeks were producing their red-figure wares in Athens and Southern Italy...

Here you find a fabulous example of Daunian pottery from Southern Italy. Dates to circa the 4th century BC. This Askos is in the rare form of a duck, with beak acting as spout, decorated in shades of red, black and pink. Just under 8" tall.

Intact with no repairs.

For a similar example see "Askos (flask) in the shape of a bird" at the Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art; New York, NY.

Provenance: Private Florida collection formed in the 60's, US art auction.

Here you find a lovely Greek Aryballos with some of the paint worn off, leaving half of the quatrefoil decoration. Nice globular body, short tubular neck, thick discoid rim with flat edge. Buff ware vessel on a light colour clay. Has some root marking and calcification around the rim. The aryballos was an oil container used by ancient Greek athletes, usually left suspended from the wrist. Almost 3 inches in height!

Provenance: Ex. US collection...

Rare and beautiful multicolour ancient glass Djed pillar. This symbol of Osiris god of the underworld was a potent symbol of regeneration and was made to accompany the dead on to its journey. What the form represents is unknown to this day. It could represent a leafless tree, a pole a spine. Eventually the common belief was that it represented the backbone or spine of the god Osiris.Dates to the Roman Period. Top part re-glued. Measures 1 .7 inches in height...

Here you find a beautiful green Djed pillar amulet from circa the Late Period 688–332 B.C. This symbol of Osiris god of the underworld was a potent symbol of regeneration and was made to accompany the dead on to its journey. What the form represents is unknown to this day. It could represent a leafless tree, a pole a spine. Eventually the common belief was that it represented the backbone or spine of the god Osiris. In the New Kingdom it decorated the bases of mummy coffins. Measures 1 1/4 in...

Ancient Egyptian clay mould for making faience eye of Horus. Measuring 1.5 inches in diameter. Uzat Mold, circa 18th Dynasty.

Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946).

Ex. Billy Jamieson (1954-2011)

Authentication: Gayle Gibson, Egyptologist: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

An Egyptian clay mold for making faience eye of Horus. Measuring 1.5 inches in diameter. Uzat Mould, circa 18th Dynasty.

Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946).

Ex. Billy Jamieson (1954-2011)

Authentication: Gayle Gibson, Egyptologist: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.