Terracotta Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Ancient Art and Antiquities For Sale

View as grid list

Relief représentant le "Cavalier thrace" has been removed from your cart because it can no longer be purchased. Please contact us if you need assistance.

View cart “Grotesque Mask (Mime or Aulos Player)” has been added to your cart.

Details Add to cart
ADDED

Female figure with a polos

Modeled from a small terracotta plaque, this figurine belongs to a large group of statuettes known as “pappadès”, because of their polos (a high cylindrical hat) that makes them look like Orthodox priests.

CHF 4'700 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Greek terracotta figure showing the myth of Europe
CHF 7'900 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Vessel Decorated with a Hare

A circular vessel with a rounded profile, an inwardly rolled edge and a small disk-shaped, low foot. The medallion, with its brown background, is decorated in the “champlevé” technique. The animal represented in the tondo is a hare.

CHF 3'800 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Large Chalice with Geometrical Decoration

This handmade, large calyx is composed of a hemispherical bowl supported by a hollow, trumpet-shaped high foot.

CHF 13'000 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Ex-Voto in the shape of a Female Head

This veiled female head is carved in very high relief on the plaque, whose edges are curved. The two vertical edges, visible in the lower plaque, indicate the borders of the veil.

CHF 7'700 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Seated Terracotta Statuette

Like almost all Syrian terracotta statuettes dated to this period, this figurine was hand-modeled in a very stylized, almost instinctive manner; it is seated on a simplified stool.

CHF 2'260 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Greek Terracotta Statuette of a Standing Actor

The statuette depicts a standing man, with a mask, which characterizes him as an actor. He is dressed in a large cloak. As it is usually the case at that time for terracotta examples, our figurine was molded in two parts, the front and the back.

CHF 14'500 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Grotesque Terracotta Head (perhaps a Mime or an Actor)

This male head is cut straight under the neck. It is hollow and would have been molded in a bivalve mold. The face shows the exaggerated and archetypal features of the Greek-Roman images known as “grotesque”.

CHF 8'200 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Grotesque Mask (Mime or Aulos Player)

This face certainly represents a male figure; it shows some of the distinctive features of the Greek-Roman images known as “grotesque”, such as the big aquiline and pointed nose, the strongly marked, frowning eyebrows and the wrinkled forehead.

CHF 6'700 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Group representing a Grotesque Nurse and her Baby

This statue was cast into a rosy beige clay covered with a white slip. The old woman, is seated on a stool; her face is covered with a grotesque mask and her gaze directed toward the baby she holds in her naked arms.

CHF 12'000 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Black Glazed Oinochoe

A delicate and elegant small jug with a trefoil mouth. This vessel is entirely black glazed and retains its original beautiful luster.

CHF 5'100 Read More
Details Add to cart
ADDED

Western Asian Long-Spouted Jug

A large dark brown-black terracotta vessel, certainly fired in a reducing atmosphere. It is equipped with a small handle and with a long gutter-shaped spout.

CHF 4'800 Read More