Rare form! Ancient Greek, Campania, southwestern Italy, ca 325 to 300 BC. Small blackware pottery baby feeder with strainer on top, double handle to one side and ribs decorating sides. 2-1/2"H x 3-1/2"L, intact and generally excellent, save small section of tip with restoration. Still a nice rare example!
From ancient Greece, Magna Graecia, southern Italy, ca. 325 BC. Black-glazed pottery vessel with rounded body, long neck and rounded handle. Stamped center is a wonderfully expressive portrait of a lion, with long extended tongue and curly mane. 3-1/2"H x 4-3/8"W (including handle),in generally excellent condition, save minor chipping spout, small section of restoration to foot and scuffing on rim and body. ... Click for details
This ancient guttus ceramic has a low rounded body with a flat, closed top decorated in tondo with a nymph riding on a hippocamp (hippocampi or hippocampus). The foot is in two degrees separated by a moulded ridge and buff ceramic. A straight vertical spout is set on the shoulder with a high arching handle. This calene vase is covered with black gloss with some surface growth. The name "Calene ware" is used for black gloss vases with relief decoration, produced in many places in Southern Italy. ... Click for details
Miniature ancient Greek pottery kylix from the Greek colony of Apulia in Southern Italy. This style of pottery is known as Xenon and is characterized by the orange and reddish pigment on a blackware base. This piece measure 3.75 inches from handle to handle. It is intact and in excellent condition. Dates to circa 375-350 B.C.
Small but lovely and rare! Greece, island of Lesbos. Electrum (mix of gold and silver) coin in hecte denomination, Ca 4th century BC. Obverse, head of Cabeiros, looking right wearing wreathed pileus, star on either side. Reverse, head of Persephone, looking right in linear square. 2.53 grams, 10.5 mm. SNG Cop 321, Bodenstedt 99.
A South Italian terracotta base for a statuette. I have also decided to get rid of this one for the same reason as the previous. Intact with a little gesso on the top and some encrustation. Circa 3rd cent BC. Diameter 10.8cm, height 2.3 cm.
A South Italian terracotta base for a statuette. I have been toting this around for decades thinking that at some time I may buy a statuette to fit atop. I do not think that is going to occur. A hole in the center and a few chips but otherwise intact. Circa 3rd Cent BC. Diameter at base 11 cm, height 4.2cm. I do think that the bases are rarer than the statuettes.
From ancient Greece, Magna Graecia, ca. 325 BC. Blackware pottery Kyathos / dipper; with low foot, single handle and cup-like body. 4-7/8"W at handle x 2"H, intact and just about choice.
PROVENANCE: Ex-Spanish Collection, acquired at auction at Hotel Drouot, Paris, France in early 2000. ... Click for details
Magna Graecia, either Apulia or Campania, ca. 325 BC. Pottery vessel once thought to be used to pour oil into oil lamps, but now argued to be used for other purposes. Done in blackware with a large, stemmed spout with flaring rim, circular handle and spool-shaped base; decorated on top with horseman striking-down and trampling either a soldier or perhaps an Amazon. 3-3/8"H x 4" across at widest, repaired at junction of spout to base, plus small chip to rim, but still appears quite excellent. ... Click for details
Perhaps the single most popular of all Apulian Greek antiquities - and getting harder to find! From southeastern Italy, ca 340 to 325 BC, ancient pottery skyphos (wine cup) decorated on each side with a wise owl standing between two laurel sprigs. The owl was the symbol of Athens and these were made by the Greek settlers in Italy to both remember their Greek heritage and to export back to the Greek mainland. 5-1/2"W to handles x 3"H, repaired, but effectively complete and appearing excellent.... Click for details
