Early Villanovan Pottery Vessel Northern Italy, ca. 8th to 6th century BCE.

Early Villanovan Pottery Vessel Northern Italy, ca. 8th to 6th century BCE.

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 10th to 8th century BCE. Stunning pottery vessel with deep brown slip bulbous base thin neck with flared rim and most strikingly twin spiked (cornuta) handles a

Ancient Europe, Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. late 7th to early 6th century BCE. Wheel-thrown pottery chalice with a flared foot beneath a tapered stem, a broad body, and a thin rim surrounding the dee

Northern Italy, Etruria, Italo-Corinthian, ca. 7th to 6th century BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery thymiaterion used to slowly burn incense. The vessel is comprised of a wide, round base, a slender neck wi

**First Time At Auction** Northern Italy, Villanovan, ca. 9th to 8th century BCE; Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE; Northern Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 9th to 11th century CE.

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 8th to 7th century BCE. Very large and once quite extraordinary bronze fibula. Cast bronze clothes pin with rectangular catch plate and long curving arc somewha

**Originally Listed At $350** Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 9th to 8th century BCE. A "sanguisuga" brooch - meaning "leech" - made of tightly-coiled bronze wire with a heavy clasp and pin. T

**Originally Listed At $100** Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 9th to 8th century BCE. A fibula (brooch) made of rounded sheet bronze with a heavy clasp and pin joined to the body through a spi

Etruria, Northern Italy, ca. 6th century BCE. A wonderful pottery relief - perhaps belonging to an antefix - depicting the head of a gorgon, wreathed with snakes, her mouth agape with its tongue stick

Central Italy, ca. 8th-7th century BC. A fine burnished impasto-ware amphora, with anthropomorphic decoration along shoulder. Very nice example. Ex: Jürgen Haering, Galerie am Museum, Freiburg, Ger

Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. 6th century BCE. A large and impressive pottery amphora of a fine form with a classic bulbous body upon a raised splayed foot, a thick rim at the top, and gracefully curve

Classical World, Etruria (Italy), ca. 6th century BCE. A beautiful wheel-thrown pottery oinochoe (pouring vessel) with a thick strap handle that flows from the thin, flared rim down to the rounded sho

Etruria, northern Italy, ca. last quarter of 6th century BCE. A near-miniature aryballos of an elegant form with a globular body, tubular neck, and flat rim with a single strap handle. The vase is pai

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 800 to 700 BCE. A fascinatingly-shaped mug or jug. The body has an almost symmetrical form, standing on a flared foot and with a flared rim. A strap handle join

Classical World, Etruria (Italy), Archaic Period, ca. late 7th to early 6th century BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery alabastron (perfume vial) with a series of distinctive ribs layered across the exterior

Athens (Attica), Greece, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. Very cute miniature pottery lekythos - a vessel used to hold perfumes - in black figure with area from shoulder to foot in black glaze,

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 1100 to 700 BCE. An elegantly shaped kylix from early Italy, made of a type of terracotta known as impasto, a precursor to Etruscan bucchero. The piece has two

Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A finely-modeled, wheel-thrown pottery lekythos - a vessel used to store scented oils or other perfumes - boasting a lustrous, je

Ancient Greece, Corinth, ca. early 6th century BCE. An attractive aryballos, a vessel used to hold scented oils and perfumes in the bath, with a classic apple-shaped form, a circular flat rim, and a w

Ancient Near East, Holyland, ca. 1st millennium BCE; Ancient Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 4th to 1st century BCE; Roman, late Imperial to early Byzantine, ca. 4th to 6th century CE; Western Europe,

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 800 to 700 BCE. A black kyathos, a single-handled dipper with an interestingly-shaped conical foot of openwork design. This is a very early example of a vessel

**Originally Listed At $750** Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 1100 to 700 BCE. A very large pottery kyathos - ladle - on wide foot, tall stem and large looped handle. The vessel is impasto, a

**Originally Listed At $800** Central Europe, late Bronze Age to early Iron Age, ca. 8th to 6th century BCE. A cast bronze votive weapon, a spike-tipped axe with a wide, flat butt and a separate end c

Ancient Europe, northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 7th century BCE. An opulent kyathos formed from buccheroid impasto to present an elegant form of a high-arching handle, a broad hip, a verticall