Mint Greek Attic Black Figured Warrior Kylix

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #968527

This mint quality piece is a Greek Attic kylix that dates circa 500-490 B.C. This flawless piece is a "black-figured" Attic ceramic, and is approximately 3.25 inches high, by 7.5 inches in diameter, and is 10 inches handle to handle. This piece is seen with battle scenes on both sides, and each side has the same four figures, repeated without variation: two men wearing high-crested Corinthian helmets standing behind their horses facing right, towards a white-skinned helmeted figure, probably A... Click for details

Lovely Greek Attic Kylix: Floral Band-Cup Group

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #961593

This lovely vessel is a Greek Attic kylix that dates circa 480-450 B.C. This piece is approximately 3 inches high by 8.75 inches handle to handle. This piece is intact and is in mint condition, with no restoration and/or repair. This piece is attributed to the "Floral Band-Cup Group", which was produced by a Greek Attic workshop circa mid 6th century B.C. until 450 B.C. (For other examples see S.J. Beazley, "Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters", Oxford, 1963.) The piece offered here is better th... Click for details

Large Attic Black-Figure Siana Cup: Taras Painter

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #943529

This attractive large piece is a scarce Greek Attic Siana cup that dates circa 550-540 B.C. This piece is approximately 5.25 inches high, by 10 inches in diameter at the rim, and by 13 inches width across the handles. This piece has also been attributed to the Taras Painter, and a near identical example of the same size and condition was offered by Sotheby's Antiquities, London, July 1994, no. 297. (L2,500.00-L3,000.00 estimates, L2,530.00 realized.) The piece offered here has been repaired f... Click for details

ATTIC BLACK SLIP SCHYPHOS

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #941865
X02

Black slip terracotta schyphos (the slip, badly fired, turned brown). Greece, Attic manufacture. 5th century BC. In good condition, repaired. H:6cm Diameter:11cm

Greek Attic Owl Cup

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #941116
BDP

Almost all owl cups, or skyphoi, one encounters today were manufactured in Apulia - southeastern Italy, around 325 BC. This extremely fine example is an exception. Made in Athens (Attica) during the last quarter of the 5th century BC (Ca 425 to 400 BC), it is far more delicate, far better potted with thin walls, delicate handles and small foot. Each side shows standing owl on ground line, palmettes to each side. An exceptional example quite rare to find. Tiny stabilized pressure crack else ... Click for details

Cute Greek Boeotian Terracotta of Seated Infant

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #934849

This cute Greek terracotta is a smiling seated infant that is seen holding a rooster. This scarce piece dates circa 350 B.C., is approximately 3.5 inches high, and is in mint condition with no repair and/or fill. This piece has an original thin white slip that covers the majority of the piece, and this was used as a base for additional pigments that were applied to the piece. The smiling chubby infant is seen looking down at the rooster that is held with his left arm, and he is nude, except f... Click for details

Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora - Zeus

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #925238
ARB001

Large and fine example of an ancient Greek Neck Amphora produced in Athens during the last quarter of the 6th century B.C. Produced in black-figure technique with added white pigment - Side ‘A’ shows Zeus, king of the gods, ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder, sitting on his throne (also referred to as 'seated in majesty') holding a thunderbolt in his right hand, facing forward but head looking back, holding kylix for wine in his right hand; Side ‘B’ showing two warriors i... Click for details

Ancient Greek Attic black glazed pottery kylix

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #908387
a755

A superb intact, one handle rejoined, Attic Black-Glazed pottery Kylix with extensive root deposits. Attic pottery surpassed that of all other centres, both in its craftsmanship and in the quality of its brilliant orange-red clay. Whilst Athens is most famous for its decorated ware, both black-figure and red-figure, its potters also produced many undecorated pieces with a black glaze. That glaze is usually shiny with a metal... Click for details

Apulian Greek Swan Plate - 4th Century B.C.

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #896879
GT400

Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this splendid Greek Apulian plate. The plate remains in excellent condition and features a beautifully detailed swan in the center. This is a lovely display that measures 6 inches in diameter. Greek, 4th Century B.C.

Greek Attic Blackware Pyxis: X-Rare

Greek: Attic Pre AD 1000: item #891841

This extremely rare Greek Attic piece is a blackware glazed pyxis that dates circa 5th-4th century B.C. This piece is intact, with no apparent repair/restoration, and has some heavy white calcite deposits that are seen in various sections of the vessel. This piece also has decorative white concentric circles that are seen on the top lid. This piece is approximately 4.8 inches high by 5.6 inches in diameter, and has some glaze loss, seen mostly on the top lid of the vessel. This top lid is ac... Click for details