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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.

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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
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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
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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
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Violin-Shaped Anatolian Idol with a Side Tuft

This statuette, whose accurate outline is clearly marked, is almost flat although slightly rounded. No element enables us to distinguish one side from the other, or to determine the gender of the figurine.

CHF 12'000 Read More
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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
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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
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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.

CHF 2'150 Read More
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Sumerian Spouted Vessel

This vessel was carved from a granite pebble with black and white mottling. It is almost conical in shape, with a rounded bottom that does not provide stability.

CHF 2'100 Read More
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Sumerian Miniature Jar

This small jar is more elaborate in shape than most other contemporary stone vessels. The perfectly globular body stands on its own despite the absence of base.

CHF 1'150 Read More
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Globular Jar

This jars 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.

CHF 3'200 Read More
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Hemispherical Stone Seal

Carved from a small yellowish beige pebble irregularly speckled with red, this seal is a small cylinder with a smooth and well-polished surface.

CHF 2'200 Read More