Sold
Ancient Near East, Holy Land, ca. 1st millennium BCE; Magna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, ca. 400 to 200 BCE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery vessels from the ancient world including a Holy Land pitcher and a South Italic ring askos. The pitcher features a spouted rim and a thick handle above the apple-shaped body, and the ring askos bears a squat spout projecting up from one side of the hoop-form body. Size of largest (pitcher): 3.6″ L x 3.25″ W x 4.1″ H (9.1 cm x 8.3 cm x 10.4 cm)
Condition: Ring askos professionally repaired from a few large pieces, with resurfacing and earthen deposits along break lines; pitcher is intact. Each vessel with heavy earthen deposits, abrasions, and pitting, otherwise in great condition. Nice preservation to overall forms.
Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection, inherited via grandfather, who collected before 1980
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all purchases.
We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.
