South Italic Messapian Terracotta Trozella

Classical World, Southern Italy, Apulia, Messapian tribe, ca. 5th to 3rd century BCE. A beautiful example of the most famous form of Messapian pottery, the trozella (also spelled trozzella). The vesse

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Messapia, ca. 4th century BCE. This is a bulbous terracotta vessel with a pronounced rim, disc foot, and with twin curved handles on the shoulder. The color is a beige/c

Classical World, Southern Italy, Apulia, Messapian tribe, ca. 5th to 3rd century BCE. A beautiful example of the most famous form of Messapian pottery, the trozella (also spelled trozzella). The vesse

Magna Graecia, South Italy, ca. 4th century BCE. A lovely pottery lebes gamikos. This form presents a characteristically round-bottomed bowl with twin handles and a stand, quite an elegant form. Adorn

Magna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, ca. 4th century BCE. A mold-made earthenware antefix depicting a Gorgoneion or the head of a Gorgon - a frightening beast-like female creature seen as early as th

Italy, South Italic, Daunian, ca 350 BCE. A finely hand-built ceramic vessel of an olpe-like form but with a strainer bottom, beautifully painted in red and black on a buff ground with horizontal stri

**First Time At Auction** Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE; Magna Graecia, South Italic, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. A wonderful set of three ancient terracotta oil lamps from two disti

**Originally Listed At $150** Magna Graecia, South Italic, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A lovely group of four Apulian pottery items, including a shallow plate with a ringed base, a disc-shaped pole oi

Magna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. Truly a wonder to behold! A rare and exemplary terracotta stemless kylix known as an "Arethusa cup" as it boasts the impression of

Magna Graecia, South Italic, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. An exceptional black glazed terracotta guttus vessel with a lioness head spout dramatically emerging from one side. The form consists of a c

Magna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A graceful wheel-thrown terracotta lekanis with a symmetrically shaped lid and body - each with a pedestal bowl, narrow neck or leg, a

**Originally Listed At $500** Magna Graecia, South Italic colonies, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A hollow-molded terracotta standing female, perhaps a young girl, wearing a

**First Time At Auction** Greece, Corinthia, ca. 6th century BCE; Magna Graecia / South Italic Colonies, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A gathering of six terracotta items from over 300 years of Grecian

**Originally Listed At $150** Magna Graecia, South Italic colonies, Apulia, ca. 4th century BCE. An attractive ensemble of 3 redware miniatures: 2 pottery vessels & 1 terracotta whorl. Sitting upon a

Classical world, southern Italy, Apulia, Messapian tribe, ca. 5th to 3rd century BCE. A classic example of the most famous Messapian form, the trozella (sometimes "trozzella"). The piece has high stra

with thermoluminescence analysis report from Oxford Authentication, London stating that the firing was 1700-2700 years ago Provenance: The Estate of David Niven 9 1/2 inches high (to handle top); 6 3/

A Messapian Terracotta Trozzella Circa 4th Century B.C. and Later Height 10 5/8 inches. This lot is located in Chicago. Property from the Collection of Jonathan Holstein, San Francisco, California <p

Magna Graecia, southern Italy, near Ignazia, Apulia, ca. 325 BCE. A very fine pottery pouring vessel known as an epichysis, possessing a characteristically spool-shaped base with a slender spout and l

**First Time At Auction** Greece, Magna Graecia, South Italic, Campanian, possibly from Cumae given the light orange color of the clay body, ca. 350 to 320 BCE. A beautiful askos intended to be decora

1700-1350 B.C. A bronze spearhead composed of an elongated leaf-shaped blade, tapering round-section socket leading to a D-section tapering midrib to both faces. Cf. Bruno, A., Spears in context: typo

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, ca. late 4th to early 3rd century BCE. A lovely wheel-made lidded lekanis, the lid beautifully decorated via the red-figure technique with two Ladies of Fashion, each on

Magna Graecia, South Italy, probably Gnathian, ca 325 BCE. A gorgeous polychrome lekythos, the body decorated with a net pattern in black with added/fugitive white pigment dots at some of the intersti

Magna Graecia, South Italic, ca. 4th century BCE. A fine cast bronze pyxis with a corseted lower body and a tiered, conical upper section, decorated with a raised segmented pattern. The pyxis form was

Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Campania or Apulia, ca. 325 BCE. Lovely and just about perfect pottery kylix. Covered in deep black lead glaze, sitting on short foot, with splayed bowl and two sweeping