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ANATOLIAN MARBLE IDOL Early bronze age (2700/2300 BC). Close to Kusura type, with rounded body, tapering neck, small circular head. Thin sign of neck break. 19 cm high. [...]
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SYRO-HITTITE TERRACOTTA FIGURE Circa 1180-700 BC. A creamware figurine depicting a two-headed figure with two hands raised to the chest; the breasts and the eyes of each head formed with round recesse[...]
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SYRO-HITTITE TERRACOTTA FIGURE. Circa 1180-700 BC. A creamware figurine depicting a female figure with hands raised to the chest; the eyes and breasts formed with round recesses, the necklace separate[...]
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SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER HEAD OF A MAN Circa 1st cent. BC-1st cent. AD. Thin oval face, eyes recessed for inlays (now missing); straight recessed eyebrows; with a long, thin triangular nose; his beard,[...]
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SUMERIAN CUNEIFORM FOUNDATION CONE Circa 3rd millennium BC. Tapering form with a rounded flaring head, bearing a cuneiform inscription from the temple of Ningirsu (the city of god Girsu in Lagash) bui[...]
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POTTERY RHYTON Near East, Mesopotamia, circa 10th to 8th century BC. Of trumpet form, terminating with zoomorphic head. Entire vessel covered in red slip, the superior band, below the rim decorated wi[...]
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POTTERY BOOT RHYTON Iran, circa 1st millennium BC. With pointed upturned toe and suspension hoop. 16 cm high. Property of an English Gentleman.[...]
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LURISTAN BRONZE GOAT West Iran, circa first half of 1st millennium BC. Cast animal amulet in the form of goat, with suspension loop. 5.5 x 4.8 cm. Property of an English Gentleman.[...]
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ACHAEMENID BRONZE PHIALE Circa 6th-5th Century BC. With a twenty-one petalled repoussé flower, with a central raised omphalos, and flaring lip. 16 cm diameter. Property of an English Gen[...]
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ACHAEMENID BRONZE PHIALE Circa 6th-5th Century BC. With a sixteen petalled repoussé flower, with a central raised omphalos, and flaring lip. 10.5 cm diameter. Property of an English Gent[...]
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LARGE INDUS VALLEY TERRACOTTA ZEBU BULL Circa 3rd-2nd millennium BC. Terracotta humped bull with long curved horns, painted with pale gray lines. With minor repairs. Rare in this condition. 22 cm high[...]
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INDUS VALLEY TERRACOTTA ZEBU BULL Circa 3rd-2nd millennium BC. A miniature terracotta humped bull with long curved horns, painted with pale gray lines. 7 cm high. 9 cm length. Property of[...]
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STUCCO HEAD OF BUDDHA Gandhara, circa 4th-5th cent. AD. The ovoid face with full lips, deeply cut stylised eyes and wavy hair pulled over the ushnisha. Original polychromy. Rare in this conditio[...]
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TANG HORSEMAN MUSICIAN China, Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 AD). Terracotta musician playing drum on horseback. Lower legs repaired. 32 cm high. Property of an English Gentleman.[...]
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MING DYNASTY GLAZED POTTERY HOUEHOLD SHRINE Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). 43 cm high. 27.5 cm width. 20 cm depth. Property of an English Gentleman.[...]
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MING DYNASTY GLAZED POTTERY MODEL OF AN HOUSE Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). 39.5 cm high. 25 cm width. 10 cm depth. Property of an English Gentleman.[...]
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TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE ARYBALLOI Circa 7th-6th century BC. Turquoise blue in color, both with spherical body; one with a short cylindrical neck and wide strap handle; the other with fish decoration and [...]
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EGYPTIAN ALABASTER ALABASTRON Circa 7th-6th cent BC. With two small lug handles (one missing) on each side of the shoulders. Curved base, with a short cylindrical neck, small rim at the top. Corrosion[...]
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FAIENCE SHABTI Late period, circa 664-332 bc. Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, wearing a false beard; with hieroglyphic text.&n[...]
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FAIENCE SHABTI Late period, circa 664-332 BC. Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, wearing a false beard. 12.5 cm high. Pro[...]
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FAIENCE SHABTI Late period, circa 664-332 BC. Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, wearing a false beard; with hieroglyphic text. [...]
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FAIENCE SHABTI Late period, circa 664-332 BC. Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, wearing a false beard. Minor d[...]
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FAIENCE SHABTI Late period, circa 664-332 BC. Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, wearing a false beard. 10.5 [...]
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FAIENCE SHABTI Late period, circa 664-332 BC. Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, wearing a false beard. 8 cm high. Property of an English Gentlema[...]
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BRONZE OSIRIS Late period to Ptolemaic period, circa 664-30 BC. The standing mummiform god wearing atef-crown with uraeus and false beard, holding crook and flail. 7.5 cm high.&[...]
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BRONZE OSIRIS Late period to Ptolemaic period, circa 664-30 BC. The standing mummiform god wearing atef-crown with uraeus and false beard, holding crook and flail. 9 cm high. [...]
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BRONZE OSIRIS Late period to Ptolemaic period, circa 664-30 BC. The standing mummiform god wearing atef-crown with uraeus and false beard, holding crook and flail. 8 cm high.&nb[...]
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ITALIC BRONZE WARRIOR Central Italy, circa 5th century BC. Striding forward with left leg advanced, with right arm raised, a long spear or javelin would have been gripped in this hand; he would also h[...]
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COUPLE OF VILLANOVIAN BRONZE FIBULAE Central Italy, circa 8th-7th cent BC. Sanguisuga type, with a hollow arched bow decorated with carved geometrical pattern; the long pin coiled into a spiral where [...]
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SPECTACLE PENDANT Circa 8th-7th century BC. Formed from a single wire, round in section, coiled into two opposing spirals with a loop in between. 11.5 cm lentgh. Property of an English Gentlema[...]
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BRONZE BOW FIBULA Central Italy, circa 7th-5th cent BC. Wire arched bow; long pin coiled into a spiral and tapering catch-plate. 9 cm length. [...]
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VILLANOVAN IMPASTO-WARE STAMNOID OLLA Circa early 7th century BC. The body with ribs and a geometric band on the shoulders. The M-shaped handles are upturned. Reconstructed foot. Repaired rim. Crack o[...]
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THREE ETRUSCAN VESSELS Circa 7th - 6th century BC. Bucchero-ware kyathos, with a female-mask in moulded relief on the inside of the rim and an arching strap handle with knop at apex. 13 cm high.[...]
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ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED PYXIS Circa 4th-6th century BC. Decorated with parallel band in umber and with a central frieze of animals on shoulder. One handle missing. Repaired. 13.5 cm high. &nb[...]
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ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS Circa 4th-6th century BC. Clay light brown, body flattened sphere, short neck, flat lip and strap handle. Decorated in crimson and white with incisions. Damage. 7 [...]
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ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN POTTERY ARYBALLOS Circa 4th-6th century BC. Body flattened sphere, short neck, flat lip and strap handle. Decorated in crimson and dark brown. 12 cm high. Property of an Engli[...]
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ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA VOTIVE FEMALE 'HALF' HEAD Circa 3rd-2nd century B.C. Showing the rigth half of the face, the curly hair visible beneath the himation covering the head. 28 cm high. Property [...]
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ETRUSCAN VOTIVE HEAD Circa 3rd-2nd cent BC. Hollow terracotta votive head. Modelled in relief, depicting a woman with wavy centrally-parted hair. 14.5 cm high. [...]
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FALISCAN TERRACOTTA INCENSE-BURNER Etruria, circa 4th century BC. In the form of woman’s head. Minor crack on basin, otherwise intact. 12 cm high. [...]
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ITALIC TERRACOTTA FEMALE FIGURES Circa 5th century BC. Seated female figure with polos and peplos. 21 cm high. Votive female bust with polos and peplos. 24 cm high. [...]
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MARBLE HEAD OF APHRODITE Roman, circa 1st cent. AD. Oval face, wavy centrally-parted hair swept back in thick tresses, bound at the nape into a chignon. 27 cm high. [...]
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BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Attic, circa 6th-early 5th cent BC. Dionysos (?) clad in a himation, reclining on kline; below, amphora. Table in front, below, crouching dog. Two ithyphallic satyrs on each side[...]
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BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Attic, circa early 5th cent BC. Bearded Dionysos, clad in a himation, reclining on kline; in front, female figure with skin painted in added white. Two ithyphallic satyrs on each[...]
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BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Attic, circa early 5th cent BC. With scene of Pyrrihic dance: a musician playing a diaulos and a Pyrrhic hoplite dancer looking backwards holding spear, a shield on the ground, b[...]
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BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Attic, circa early 5th cent BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right. Details in added white and crimson; frieze of white and black dots above the secne; tongues on shoulder. Four r[...]
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BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Attic, circa early 5th cent BC. Nude youth on horseback left; before, palm tree; Dotted frieze above the scene. Tongues on shoulder and small black bands on the base of neck. Two[...]
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BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Attic, circa early 5th cent BC. Quadriga right. Behind horses two figure: a woman seated right, and a standing man holding spears, lyre(?). Before horses, another draped female f[...]
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BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Attic, circa early 5th cent BC. Charioteer driving quadriga right. Details in added white and crimson; tongues on shoulder and small black bands on the base of neck. Reserved foo[...]
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BLACK GLAZED LEKYTHOS Attic, circa 4th cent BC. Black-glaze with metallic shenn. Tongues on shoulder, neck and foot reserved. Intact. 11 cm high. [...]
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BLACK-FIGURE BAND CUP Attic, circa 6th - 5th century BC. The exterior with a reserved band decorated in black with palmettes, two reserved bands below. The interior with a reserved tondo with deer pai[...]
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CHOUS OINOCHOE
Attica, circa 4th cent. BC.
Globular body, trefoil shaped mouth, ring foot. Central frame shows a female figure standing right, head turned back, with open arms, near altar. Added red.
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THREE RED-FIGURE SQUAT-LEKYTHOI Attic, circa 5th century BC. One with maenad advancing right (10.5 cm high). One with female head to right and palmettes (9.5 cm high). One with swan (9 cm high). Two o[...]
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SAINT-VALENTINE CLASS SESSILE KANTHAROS Attica, circa 5th cent. BC. A cylindrical cup with everted rim and low, rounded body; ring base. Each sides of the black-glazed body decorated with a panel alte[...]
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RED-FIGURE BELL-KRATER Attic, circa 4th century BC. The obverse with Dionysiac scene: Dyonisos with ivy wreath and thyrsus, advancing right, around him two satyrs, two maenads and a winged Eros. The r[...]
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RED-FIGURE BELL-KRATER Attic, circa 4th century BC. The obverse with contest of two Arimasps with Gryphon; to left is an Arimasp on horseback right; in the middle of the scene, the Gryphon, painted wh[...]
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CHALKIDIAN BLACK-FIGURE NECK-AMPHORA Circa 6th cent BC. With spreading foot, cylindrical handles, and flaring mouth. On each sides a central panel illustrates the same scene: man on horseback, walking[...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY OLLA Apulia, circa 4th century BC. With typical broad funnel-shaped rim, the globular body modelled with two arched handles and between each handle a stylized animal head protome with [...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY OLLA Apulia, circa 4th century BC. With typical broad funnel-shaped rim, the globular body modelled with two arched handles and a pair of stylized animal head protome. Painted in reddi[...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY BELL-KRATER Apulia, circa 5th-4th century BC. With round-section handles, pedestal base and broad everted rim, decorated with parallel bands and dots in red and dark-brown. Oxidized. I[...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY BELL-KRATER Apulia, circa 5th-4th century BC. With round-section handles, pedestal base and broad everted rim, decorated with parallel bands and palmettes in red. Intact. 20.5 cm high.[...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY OLPE Apulia, circa 4th century BC. Globular body flattened at bottom with large mouth and thin flat lip; wide strap handle. Decoration in reddish-brown and dark brown. 14 cm high[...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY KANTHAROS Apulia, circa 4th century BC. Bi-conical body, with tapering foot, everted rim and high looped strap handles. Decoration in reddish-brown and dark brown. Intact. 15 cm high. [...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY KRATER Apulia, circa 4th century BC. The broad ovoid body on a flaring foot, with a short neck and thick flat rim, strap handles. Decoration in reddish-brown and dark brown. 19 c[...]
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TWO DAUNIAN POTTERY Apulia, circa 4th century BC. Bulbous olpe with everted rim and small foot and strap handle, decorated with reddish brown concentric lines and vertical lines between. 14,5 cm high.[...]
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TWO DAUNIAN VESSELS Circa 4th century BC. Bulbous olpe with everted rim and small foot and strap handle, decorated in dark brown. 10 cm high. Kotyle with flat rim, two handels attached at the neck. De[...]
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SIX DAUNIAN POTTERY VESSELS Apulia, circa 5th-4th century BC. Four one-handled cups, three achrome, one decorated with three concentric lines in reddish brown. Bulbous olpe with everted rim and small [...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY JAR Apulia, circa 4th cent. BC. Globular jar with a broad rim and high strap handle; decorated in umber; a lozenge pattern on the handle front. Damage. 16.5 cm high. [...]
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DAUNIAN POTTERY KYATHOS Apulia, circa 4th-6th cent. BC. The zoomorphic handle with pointed horns, applied eyes, painted in umber with concentric bands and geometric patterns on the rim, the interior a[...]
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DAUNIAN TERRACOTTA ASKOS Apulia, circa late 4th century BC. With two vertical spouts, one with strainer holes near the rim. Richly decorated in parallel bands with scrolling, wave, vines and other dec[...]
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DAUNIAN TERRACOTTA ASKOS Apulia, circa late 4th century BC. With two vertical spouts, one with strainer holes near the rim, decorated in red and dark brown with parallel bands with wave, vine tendril [...]
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BLACK GLAZED AMPHORA Lucania, circa 5th-early 4th century BC. Ovoid body with reserved ring on shoulder. Cylindrical neck with geometrical decoration and everted rim. Repaired. 28.5 cm high. [...]
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BLACK-GLAZED GUTTUS South-Italy, circa 4th century BC. With ribbed body, angled spout and ring handle; central medallion with moulded bearded head, 8.5 cm diameter. 8 cm high. Property of[...]
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BLACK-GLAZED GUTTUS South-Italy, circa 4th century BC. With ribbed body, moulded lion head spout and ring handle, the shoulder with stamped palmettes. Repaired. 10.5 cm diameter. [...]
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THREE BLACK-GLAZED POTTERY VESSELS Calene ware, circa 3rd-2nd century BC. Two miniature vessels (olpe and bowl) and bowl on ring base. Black-glaze with delightful metallic sheen. Max. 8 cm high [...]
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TWO BLACK-GLAZED VESSELS Circa 4th-3rd century BC. Olpe with ribbed body (14.5 cm high, repaired) and patera (17 cm diameter, intact) with delightful metallic sheen. [...]
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TWO BLACK-GLAZED VESSELS Circa 4th century BC. A cup-skyphos with twin handles. Repaired. 14.5 cm across handles. An olpe with ribbed body. Intact. 9.5 cm high. [...]
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THREE BLACK-GLAZED VESSELS Circa 4th-3rd century BC. Two cups, 10 cm and 9.5 cm diameter, one of them repaired, the other, intact; miniature bowl, 8 cm diameter, repaired. [...]
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FOUR VESSELS Circa 4th-3rd cent. BC. Black glazed lekythos with ribbed body. Black glazed cup-skyphos with twin handles. Canosan pyxis without lid, the body with traces of paint. Cup-skyphos with twin[...]
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FOUR MINIATURE VESSELS Circa 4th cent. BC. Gnathian ware miniature skyphos. Intact. Gnathian ware miniature olpe. Intact. Black glazed miniature olpe. Intact. Xenon ware miniatrure olpe with geo[...]
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GNATHIAN WARE OINOCHOE Apulia, circa late 4th cent. BC. Trefoil shaped mouth, with ornamental bands on the front panel composed of tongues, grape vine, tendrill and rosette in added white, yellow and [...]
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GNATHIAN-WARE MINIATURE SKYPHOS Apulia, circa 4th cent. BC. Decorated with olive leaves and berries on one side and with ivy leaves on the other, with a ring foot reserved on the base. 11.2 cm high. &[...]
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XENON WARE STEMLESS KYLIX ATTRIBUTED TO THE RED SWAN GROUP Apulia, circa late 4th century BC. Black glazed with details in added red, the interior with a central figure of swan in tondo encircled by a[...]
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XENON WARE MINIATURE OINOCHOE Apulia, circa 4th cent. BC. Trefoil shaped mouth, ring foot. Swan within a frame of two line, all in added red. Intact. 6 cm high. [...]
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RED-FIGURE LEKANIS AND LID North-Adriatic, circa 4th century BC. The knobbed lid decorated with three stylized female heads, palmettes between. Scrolling wave around the rim. The body with twin handle[...]
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RED-FIGURE SKYPHOS South-Italy, circa 4th cent BC. Each side with owl facing left, its head turned frontally, framed by laurel sprigs, on reserved groundline. Intact. 6.5 cm high. [...]
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TWO RED-FIGURE VESSELS Apulia, circa 4th century BC. Miniature kantharos, with female head on each sides, looped strap handles. 10 cm high. Repaired. Alabastron, with female head, rosettes on shoulder[...]
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RED-FIGURE CHOUS-OINOCHOE Apulia, circa first half of 4th century BC. The front panel with two offerers: the woman standing right, holding phiale in right hand, the man standing left with wreath in ri[...]
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RED-FIGURE PLATE Apulia, circa 4th century BC. With a female head in profile to the left, wearing radiate stephane and sakkos, earrings and beaded necklace, within bands of berried laurel, details in [...]
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RED-FIGURE PLATE Apulia, circa 4th century BC. With a female head in profile to the left, wearing radiate stephane and sakkos, within alternate bands of red and black, details in added yellow and whit[...]