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Small Mycenaean Pear-Shaped Jar

Small Mycenaean Pear-Shaped Jar

Skillfully wheel-made vessel provided with three handles that were modeled separately and applied to the shoulder before the firing process.

This vessel with a sinuous profile and a circular, narrow base is very characteristic of Mycenaean culture: it is the reduced version of the large jars that can often be found in tombs and that would have served for the storage of the products used during funerary rituals.

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Sumerian Miniature Jar

Sumerian Miniature Jar

This small jar, with a decorative ridge in relief that extends the neck and modifies its proportions, is more elaborate in shape than most other contemporary stone vessels. The perfectly globular body stands on its own despite the absence of base. The lip is flat.

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Globular Jar

Near Eastern Globular Jar

Such jars are largely documented all throughout the Near Eastern world. Our example is in the shape of a drop; the regular, rounded profile of the body is only interrupted in the upper part by a sharp, thick ridge on the neck. The circular mouth is delineated by a flat, angular lip.

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Near Eastern Spouted Bowl

Near Eastern Spouted Bowl

This hemispherical vessel is provided, near the lip, with a horizontal, perfectly cylindrical spout. It is simply decorated with a frieze of zigzag pattern in relief. Despite its reduced size, this vessel is outstanding for its technical precision: all the details of the shape and decoration were carefully executed.

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Conical Bowl

Near Eastern Conical Bowl

In the Near Eastern world, stone vases were considered luxury goods and belonged to high-ranking individuals or to the treasures of sanctuaries: they were used to store valuable materials (ointments, liquids for female toiletry for instance; but also wheat, oils, etc., given the size of the vessel), as ritual vessels for religious cults, as grave goods.

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Sumerian Circular Stone Bowl

Near Eastern-Sumerian Circular Stone Bowl

A conical bowl, with a perfectly flat circular bottom that provides a good balance to the vessel. Flat and angular lip. The mottled stone, covered with small darker inclusions, gives the surface a unique and original decoration. The vessel has an accurate, perfectly regular shape; it would have been shaped using a potter’s wheel, and hollowed out by drilling.

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Near Eastern Conical Stone Bowl

Near Eastern Conical Stone Bowl

Carved from a block of pink limestone, this large bowl with a rounded profile has a slightly asymmetrical shape and an irregular edge, nevertheless highlighted by a band with a thicker relief.

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Hemispherical Green Stone Bowl

Hemispherical Green Stone Bowl

Perfectly hemispherical and without lip, this bowl is supported by a small circular base in very low relief that does not provide a good balance.

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Small Bowl

Hellenistic Small Glass Bowl

This core-formed bowl is simply decorated with lathe-cut grooves just below the lip. The base is slightly concave. Towards the end of the Hellenistic period, glass definitely supplanted clay as a raw material for the manufacture of containers in all areas of daily life. With versatility like no other known material in ancient times, abundant availability, lightness and ease of use, glass enabled the imitation of a wide range of other materials (precious metals especially), whether in the form, the design or the color.

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Bactrian Alabaster Chalice

Bactrian Alabaster Chalice

This object, whose shape recalls a chalice, was carved from a monolith of calcite (alabaster) that is similar in color and appearance to the stone commonly used by Egyptian sculptors for luxury tableware in the late 4th millennium B.C. already.

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Small Flask in the shape of a Date
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Small Flask in the shape of a Date

A beautiful, small Roman glass flask that imitates the shape of a date. The vertical grooves recall in a very realistic way the wrinkles of the dried fruit. The vessel is complete and intact.

CHF 2'750 Read More