Ostracon Ancient Art, fine antiquities
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1267987
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,350.00
Rare Etruscan neck ring with outwards-turned tapering ends and a belonging fibula.
The grayish patina and the effloresced surface denote that the silver contains additions of other metals like lead and tin.
Neck rings were known from the Celts and also used during the Villanovan period.
Silver
Etruscan, ca. 6th-4th century BC
W. torque 13.8 cm (5.4 in)
L. fibula 9.8 cm (3.85 in)
Torque broken at the thickened lower end and reconstituted...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1292686
Ostracon Ancient Art
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Bronze helmet with a high domed crown and a median ridge that vanishes towards the occiput. The carination is raised to a tiny gable on the front face and shapes the anatomy of the occipital area of the head.
A bronze ring to fix a lining inside the helmet is attached with four rivets underneath the brim...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1389614
Ostracon Ancient Art
$8,500.00
Partly hammered and partly engraved bronze belt of elliptical form.
Richly decorated with nine central bosses surrounded by concentric circles. On the sides stylized waterfowls emerging from a herringbone design.
The sideward bosses with engraved with rays and circles look much like sun symbols.
Engraved fine-line waterfowls at each end of the belt...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1434366
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,450.00
Etruscan kyathos of shallow form showing a frieze of subtle vertical ribs on the prominent pronounced shoulder.
The ribbon handle with outcurving edges arches from rim to shoulder. Small, slightly incurved base.
Ceramic, Impasto ware
Etruscan, 7th century BC
H. to handle 8.7 cm (3.4 in)
D. 15.2 cm (6 in)
Intact, pristine quality and condition. Reddish brown impasto with carefully smoothed surface. Traces of sinter...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1436665
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,650.00
Burnished Etruscan chalice on a high flaring foot with a single ring on the stem.
The decoration consists of three grooves on the wall and a notched ridge below. The foot with faint horizontal bands in applied white.
Elegant example with glossy black burnished surface.
Rasmussen's chalice type 2d and close in shape to fig. 136, pl. 27 (pp. 98-99 and p. 22) in: Tom B. Rasmussen. Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria. Cambridge1979...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1437831
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,250.00
Large Etruscan oinochoe of oval body. The flared neck pinched to form a trefoil shaped mouth.
The cylindrical handle spans from rim to shoulder. Standing on a splayed foot.
Rasmussen's oinochoe type 6a. The absence of a ridge at the junction between neck and shoulder and the lack of decoration gives this group a very plain appearance.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 9012079.
Ceramic, grey bucchero
Etruscan, 600-575 BC
H...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1437832
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,850.00
Outstanding four-spiral fibula of the Amendolara type.
Made of two single wires coiled into opposing spirals. In the center a disc with embossed edge.
A separately worked fibula underneath with one end coiled to extend into a pin, the other bent down into a hook...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1446664
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,650.00
Fine hand-modeled amphora with ribs on either side of the belly. False cord decoration impressed on the ribs and at the join to the straight neck.
The handles span from the slightly flared mouth to the shoulder. They show notches on top and impressed triangles on the outside.
The base is slightly set off from the body. Carefully smoothed surface...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1451682
Ostracon Ancient Art
$480.00
Large skyphos with tapered body, rounded shoulder and straight lip. Oblique handles on the shoulder, standing on a ring base. Hard-fired ceramic decorated with horizontal bands of reddish glaze...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1452191
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,850.00
Rare Orientalizing belt buckle with hooks ending in phalli with small wings.
Hooks and loops appear on narrow rectangular frames, to which a leather or fabric belt was attached.
This type of buckles reflect the popularity of Near Eastern fashion in early Etruscan art.
For a related example, cf. acc. no. 54.170 in the Walters Art Museum database.
For further belt buckles, cf. items 93-95, pp. 79-80 in: Ines Jucker. The Italy of the Etruscans. Jerusalem 1991.
Bro...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1453941
Ostracon Ancient Art
$2,250.00
Uncommon Etruscan belt buckle with hooks ending in a female head flanked by a couple of lion heads.
The lions bent forward with ears laid back and teeth bared. Both with lenticular eyes and engraved mane.
The woman looks in the opposite direction and shows a pointed face with almond-shaped eyes. The strands of her hair are curled up in front of her chest, much in accordance with archaic style.
Hooks and loops appear on narrow rectangular frames with emphasized corners. Belts...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1458308
Ostracon Ancient Art
$500.00
Anatomical votive offering in form of an eye. Frontally molded and reworked with the modeling tool.
The Etruscans knew a great variety of votive terracottas, which they placed in their temples as thanksgiving offerings or wishes for healing.
Some of the votive eyes found appeared with eyelids and the periocular tissue, while others just showed the eyeball. The first may have referred to disorders like conjunctivitis, the other to myopia and cataracts.
One-eyed owner Moshe D...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1458309
Ostracon Ancient Art
$850.00
Anatomical votive offering in the form of an ear. Frontally molded and reworked with the modeling tool.
The Etruscans knew a great variety of votive terracottas, which they placed in their temples as thanksgiving offerings or wishes for healing.
Votive ears referred to diseases of the ear, but may have also been a request to the god to hear the prayers of the supplicant.
Terracotta
Etruscan, 4th-2nd century BC
H. 5.2 cm (2 in)
Intact and fine. Coarse te...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1458359
Ostracon Ancient Art
$480.00
Small stemmed bowl made in grey bucchero. Shallow bowl with incurving rim, set on a flaring foot.
Rasmussen’s vase no. 275. Close in shape and size to Beazley Archive vase no. 9035479.
Ceramic, grey bucchero ware
Etruscan, 600-550 BC
D. 10.3 cm (4.1 in)
H. 5.6 cm (2.2 in)
Excellent quality and condition, with finely smoothed and shiny surface. Reconstituted from two fragments. Tiny rim chip mended, small shard out of the foot restored.
Ex German...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1461144
Ostracon Ancient Art
$420.00
Rare Etruscan cup covered with red coating on the outside. The steep wall decorated with wavy white lines.
Standing on a small flat base. The bulbous bowl with a flat, outward curved rim.
Ceramic, impasto
Etruscan, White-on-Red ware, 650-600 BC
D. 9.3 cm (3.7 in)
H. 4.4 cm (1.7 in)
Rare and fine. Rim fragments reattached, with small restoration. Applied white color faded. Surface with dendrite-like black deposits.
Ex US private collection since th...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1461320
Ostracon Ancient Art
$420.00
Shallow bowl with cut out rim exposing five dovetailed segments. One with two lugs for suspension. Standing on a low stemmed foot.
Fine buff-brown clay covered with brownish glaze. Patches of silvery iridescence inside.
Interesting piece which reminds of examples made in metal.
Ceramic
Etruscan/Campanian, 4th century BC
D. with rim 12.7 cm (5 in)
H. 5.7 cm (2.2 in)
Intact, except for a restored chip out of the foot.
Ex US private collectio...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1464032
Ostracon Ancient Art
$460.00
Early Etruscan kyathos decorated with vertical lines and dots on the bulged shoulder.
The shallow bowl tapers to a flat base, the vertical neck with a ring handle connecting rim and shoulder.
Hand-built. Finely polished black ware turning to brown below the handle.
Ceramic, Impasto ware
Etruscan/Villanovan, 7th century BC
H. to handle 5.6 cm (2.2 in)
H. to rim 4.8 cm (1.9 in)
D. 7.3 cm (2.9 in)
Intact and fine.
Ex German Bavarian col...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Etruscan : Pre AD 1000 item #1464318
Ostracon Ancient Art
$240.00
Orange-brown dish of shallow rounded floor with a flat rim enhanced with grooves. Standing on a low rounded foot ring.
Ceramic
Etruscan/Campanian, 3rd-2nd Century BC
D. 16.8 cm (6.6 in)
H. 5.4 cm (2.1 in)
Intact except for a small chip out of the rim lip. Surface wear in places.
Ex US private collection since the early 20th century

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