Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek (16)

Oinochoe with trefoil spout with high handle, red painted strips. Etruscan, 6th century B.C. '

A very attractive Jug with great symethic lines in the fine Etruscan style of the period.

Size: ca. 18 cm. high and 13 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice for type! The spout with hairline repair, othervise completely intact with nothing missing and as such quite scarce.

Ex. Coll. N.R., Oberbayern, bought in Münchner Kunsthandel in the 1970s.

A nice ancient Greek Apulian net Lekythos, dating to approximately 350 B.C.

The bottle with disc base, spherical body, elegant neck and collared rim, a small loop handle arches from the neck to the shoulder of the piece. Decorated with black net pattern.

Pieces such as this were used for storing perfumes and other valuable cosmetics in antiquity.

Height: 7,8 cm...

A small pottery jug with black figures on a cream ground, Greece, Italic states 5th.-4th. century BC.

A small pottery jug, possibly made for oil or perfume with singlke handle. Decorated with a beautiful, almost archaic representation of the abduction of a Nymph by a Satyr.

Size: ca. 6,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice! The decoration nicely preserved, handle reattached othervise intact.

Ex. German Private Collection

A fine quality intact Tanagra figure, Greek period of Southern Italy, 4th.-3rd. century BC.

Standing unright in her gown and with an elaborate headdress.

Size: ca. 18 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice and intact with remnants of pigments and fine patina.

Ex. Danish Private Collection

A beautifully patinated large pendant, Greco-Roman, 200 BC-100 AD.

The pendant round and shaped as shield with a central boss.

Size: 5,5 cm.

Exceptional green patina with defined details.

Ex. Matthias Steinhausen collection and aquired at Kunsthandlung Aloys Faust, Cologne.

A very rare stamp seal depicting a warrior, kneeling behind shield holding sword or spear, 500-300 BC.

The seal with drilled hole for wearing and the top and trapezoid / pyramidal shape.

Size: 14,5 mm. tall.

Condition: Superb.

Ex. German Collection (Berlin), collected from the 1980s and onwards.

Comes with collectors own notes and photos.

A scarce Greek or Greco-Persian silver bracelet, 6th.-4th. century BC.

The fine bracelet in good silver and with finely made rams head finials. The silver is toned and can be easily cleaned to more bright silver if the buyer wants it.

Size: Inside diameter, 60 mm., and outside diameter, 69 mm.

Weight: 29,3 grams.

Condition: Choice, hairline repair in the middle.

Ex. German private collection, 1925-1979.

A Hellenistic silver bowl, Eastern Mediterranean region, 3rd/2nd century BC.

A good size and in a beautifully toned silver with wonderful preserved surfaces. Semicircular with low walls for a libation of drinking bowl.

Concenthric decoration in the center, thick inwards turning rim.

Size: 14 cm. in diameter

Condition: Superb for type, small delamination and light corrosion in patches on the exteriour, othervise perfect, fine metal.

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A Cypro-Geometric (1100 — 700 B.C) bichrome-on light ground-kylix (Bichrome III Ware).

The kylix is decorated with horizontal lines and bands, vertical lines and crosses, preserving the strict symmetry of the vessel’s decoration, which is characteristic of the Cypro-Geometric period...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 2nd. century BC.

A utilitarian, buff vessel with a wide, well-defined shoulder, a round, slightly flared foot, a conical neck, a thick mouth, and a ribbed strap handle. The lagynos is an ancient form designed to hold oil (in smaller form) or, as this one, wine. This is a beautiful example of a rare form.

Height: 17,2 cm. and 18,6 cm. wide.

Condition: Superb.

Ex. German Private Collection, 1955-1990.

Outstanding example of a Megarian bowl dating from the Hellenistic Period during which much of the Aegean and Western Asia were under the influence of Alexander the Great.

The bowl in red terracotta made in an elegant thin-walled style and ornately decorated with a pattern of symethric floral decoration in high relief, mold made. A flower in the center.

Size: 13,6 cm. in diameter and 7,4 cm. tall.

Ex. Old German Collection, sold at antiquities auction in 2014...

A beautiful ancient Greek Apulian net Lekythos, dating to approximately 350 B.C.

The bottle with disc base, spherical body, elegant neck and collared rim, a small loop handle arches from the neck to the shoulder of the piece. Decorated with black net pattern.

Pieces such as this were used for storing perfumes and othe valuable cosmetics in antiquity.

Height: 19 cm. tall!

Condition: Choice, repair to neck and handle, small chips, othervise intact...

A fine and rare blackstone seal, Greco-Persian, 6th.-2nd. century BC.

The seal is rectangular and engraved with a horse.

Size: 2,3 cm.

German Private Collection

FINE GREEK BLACK GLAZED KOTHON, GNATHIAN WARE, 4TH. CENTURY BC.

The vessel very attractive with a fine decoration at the neck.

Height: 10,9 cm.

Condition: Choice. Tiny chip at rim mended, othervise completely intact.

Ex. German Collection of H.S., bought between 1971-1998.

An extremely rare and important Etruscan offer bowl (omphalos), made in thick terracotta glazed pottery, 400-300 BC.

This shallow terracotta bowl is molded after bronze vessels and has a dome-like omphalos emerging from its interior. Around the omphalos are deep relief decorations. Very rare in terracotta.

The exterior is finely glazed and the bowl has two holes for hanging, typical for the Etruscan ware.

Size: 205 mm...

A good South Italian or Etruscan pottery dish, dating to the 4th. century BC.

Unusual dish with a series of many circles inside the dish in light brown as well as on the rim. The back also painted in brown circles. A very attractive and large dish!

Size: 183 mm. wide and 45 mm. high.

Condition: Choice! Uncleaned find state, with very minor dent to the rim. The dish will benefit much from gentle cleaning which will bring out vivid colours!

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