Lot 169C
Greco-Roman Pottery Vessel, Head & Bronze Lion
Greco-Roman Pottery Vessel, Head & Bronze Lion
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Western Greece, Archaic Period & Magna Graecia / Roman Empire, ca. 600 BCE – 300 CE. A small collection of three ancient objects from classical antiquity, including a mold-made terracotta female head with arranged coiffure, tall headdress, and traces of white pigment, likely a votive offering from a Western Greek sanctuary. Also included is a wheel-thrown Campanian blackware cup with a flared pedestal foot and lightly pinched pouring spout suggesting ceremonial use, its lustrous glaze displaying attractive silvery iridescence from burial, and a cast bronze lion-head applique from a piece of furniture or decorative fitting vessel: 2.5" D x 1.8" H (6.3 cm D x 4.6 cm H).
Provenance: private East Coast collection, New York, USA; ex-East Coast collection, New York Gallery, New York City, New York, USA, acquired before 2010
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Item #
203047
- Condition: Good. Pottery head is fragment of a larger sculpture. Minor nicks and abrasions to face, coiffure, and headdress, with softening to some finer details, light encrustations, and fading to original pigmentation, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout, and faint traces of original pigmentation in areas. Vessel has chips to rim, with fading and abrasions to areas of glaze coloration, and light encrustations. Nice earthen deposits and scattered areas of faint silver iridescence. Old label with cultural information beneath foot. Lion head is intact with dark patina.
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