Huge Corinthian Pottery Amphora - Animal Frieze w/ TL

Greece, Corinthian, ca. late 7th century BCE. A very large and highly decorated amphora from the Orientalizing period, with its body divided into horizontal registers separated by thick chocolate brow

**First Time At Auction** East Asia, Western China, Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE to 220 CE. A large pottery vase, the surface burnished to a fine grey hue and inlaid with bronze bosses. Panels of incised

Ancient Greece, Dark Ages, Proto-Geometric period, ca. 1000 to 900 BCE. A massive wheel-thrown pottery transport amphora with a petite footed base, a tall piriform body, a rounded shoulder which gentl

Italy, Etruscan culture, ca. 768 to 264 BCE. A huge pottery brazier, round in form, with the clay a deep red color and signs of use. Twin rings around the rim have been stamped using a cylinder stamp

Ancient Egypt, Predynastic period, late Naqada II to Naqada III, ca. 3200 to 3000 BCE. An enormous hand-built marl clay jar with a russet-hued surface made with a thin iron-oxide slip. The burnished v

**Originally Listed At $1800** Central Asia, Bactria, ca. mid 1st millennium BCE. An elegant redware wheel-thrown pottery jar of large form featuring a circular corseted base with impressively thin wa

Ancient Greece, Corinth, ca. 6th to 5th century CE. A wheel-thrown skyphos of sizable form with a flared discoid foot, an inverted bell-shaped body with swelling walls, and a thin rim adorned with a p

Greece, Corinth, ca. 7th to 6th century BCE. A pretty jar with twin looped handles rising upward from the shoulders. A thin, short, wide-mouthed spout rises from the center of the shoulders. The vesse

Italy, Etruscan culture, ca. 768 to 264 BCE. A huge pottery brazier, round in form, with the clay a deep red color and signs of use. Twin rings around the rim have been stamped using a cylinder stamp

Corinth, Greece; terracotta amphoriskos. Corinthian pottery developed with the influence of eastern trade, creating art with stylized plants and animal friezes, inspired by trade with the Levant, Egyp

Classical World, Italy, Etrusco-Corinthian, ca. 630 to 540 BCE. An elegant aryballos of an elegant form with an inverted piriform body, a tubular neck, an annular rim, and a single strap handle joinin

Asia Minor, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A large, heavy terracotta jar with an amphora-like shape, narrowed neck, and broad, flared rim. The interior of the rim and body are pai

**First Time At Auction** Roman, late Imperial Period, ca. 4th to late 6th century CE. A thick, buff ceramic amphora, with a bullet-like shape, small, thick, ring/loop handles on the edges of the shou

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, ca. early 1st millennium BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery transport amphora bearing an inverted piriform body along with a thick strap handle and a ringed rim. Along the shoul

East Asia, Western China, Han Dynasty, ca. 2nd century BCE. An impressive, dark-gray earthenware amphora of a remarkably distinctive form. Panels of incised linear decorations adorn the neck, while ra

East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. Large and very rare style of Tang pottery horse with accompanying TL report confirming the age. Made of molded clay and highlighted in added pigments

East Asia, Japan, Jomon Period, ca. 14,000 to 300 BCE, coming with a TL Report showing it was fired/ produced around 4,000 years ago. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form wi

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Jaina/Campeche region, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 600 to 900 CE. So mesmerizing, this fine hand-built pottery figure depicts a Maya lord standing with feet apart and wearing

A large Etruscan Bucchero amphora with animal frieze, c. 610 – 590 BC, with beautifully burnished glossy black surfaces. Around the side of the body is a beautifully incised animal frieze containing

Native American, American Southeast, Nodena Phase, Mississippian Culture, “Walls Engraved” type ca. 1350 CE. A fine example of a rare ceramic type, most likely from the Missouri/ Arkansas border a

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of a tall and slender form exhibiting fine patterning and ancient charm. The vessel presents with a planar base, a c

East Asia, Japan, Middle Jomon period, ca. 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE, most likely about 4,500 years old. A sizeable, hand-built terracotta vessel of an elegant form with a flat base, a gently tapering body

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Piartal Cultural Complex, Highland Narino region, Narino culture, ca. 750 to 1250 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a sizable form known as a bullet amphora, so called due to

Near East, Persia (Iran and Turkey), Kashan or Nishapur, Medieval Period, ca. 1200 CE. A gorgeous pottery pitcher resting on a ring foot and covered in bright, turquoise blue glaze. The pitcher is mol