Originally listed at $300

Near East, Holy Land, ca. 3rd BCE to 3rd century CE; Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A collection of 3 miniature pottery jars or vases, a Roman glass flask, a mold formed pottery head fragment, and a pottery oil lamp. The head is of a young woman, perhaps a goddess, and the flattened verso suggests she was once an applique or lug on a vessel. Each of the pottery jars have a slender neck and slightly flared spout, and the glass flask is similar in shape and size, is likely these stored sweet and floral oils and perfumes. Size of largest pottery jar: 2" Diameter x 5" H (5.1 cm x 12.7 cm)

Please note these were part of the Leavitt Hunt collection. Hunt (1831 to 1907) was a lawyer, world traveler, and photographer and the first American, if not the first person, to make a photographic record of the Near East and Mediterranean, during his "Grand Tour" from 1851 to 1852, alongside his friend, Nathan Flint Baker (1820-1891). Hunt and Baker captured calotype images of some of the greatest ancient ruins of the Classical World, and these prints are invaluable early artistic photographs as well as historical records of the sites, and several were donated by Hunt's family to the Library of Congress as part of the permanent collection, as well as other institutions. Besides taking photos, artifacts were personally collected by Hunt in the various countries he visited, including these items!

Provenance: ex-Natalie Capron, Vermont, USA, 1972 to 2008, now by her heirs; ex-Maurice Crandall, Vermont, 1941 to 1972; ex-Clyde du Vernet Hunt, Vermont, 1916 to 1941; ex-Katherine Jarvis Hunt, Vermont, 1907 to 1916; ex-Leavitt Hunt, Vermont, collected 1851 to 1852

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#174411

Chips and abrasions to pottery jars and earthen deposits. Pottery head is a fragment from as larger vessel as shown, with softening to features. Loss to rim of glass vial. Heavy mineral / earthen encrustations on oil lamp.