Figured
a post to introduce my new
pottery gallery is in order. The modest beginnings are here:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7377I collected some
pottery years ago, but sold them off a long while back. Recently my interest was revived. Not exactly sure why, but I decided to dive back in.
I'm not going to link to each and every entry.
Nor will I be updating this
thread with every addition over time. I'm feeling unhurried and, so, will acquire pieces slowly (I'm proceeding cautiously -
fakes abound) - and will update the
gallery when time allows. Same for my
weapons gallery.
I have been focusing on picking up items with
good provenance. Here are my faves thus far, below.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164045https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/Sackler_Vessel_d.jpgWestern Asian Vessel #2NW
Iran12th – 10th century BC
13.97 cm (w) x 15.24 cm (h)
(5 1/2” x 6”)
The vessel is from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collection and is ex-Sotheby's. For those who may not know, Sackler was one of the
United States' most important and prolific collectors of Asian and ancient art. I fondly remember spending lots of time in the Sackler Museum at
Harvard in the mid-1980's. I've also enjoyed a few visits to the Sackler
Gallery at the
Smithsonian in D.C. over the years. So, the "Ex-Sackler
Collection" designation for one of my
pottery pieces is significant. To me it's as meaningful as the "Ex-David
Sellwood Collection" labels attached to some of my
Parthian coins.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164046https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/Near_East_Vessel_Gibrat.jpgWestern Asian Vessel #1(Likely NW
Iran, based on similarity to vessels excavated at Tepe Giyan, Godin Tepe, and Tepe Sialk* in NW
Iran. For an example of a
pot with similar pattern of small triangles at the ridge/shoulders, see this one from Tepe Sialk:
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/cs538ef1ea.jpg)
c. 1000 BC
24.1 cm (w) x 20.32 cm (h)
(9 ½” x 8”)
Ex-Marcel Gibrat
CollectionThis piece is, thus far, the largest example of ancient
pottery that I own. FYI, Gibrat was an art restorer/conservator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is remembered as an expert in
antiquities, despite only having a sixth-grade education, and as being the only
Met restorer without a PhD. He began purchasing
antiquities, tribal art, Asian art, and European art beginning in the early to mid-1960s. He collected,
restored, bought, and sold high
quality items for the better
part of three decades, before falling ill and being unable to
work in 1992.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164038https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/CypriotBowl.jpgBowlCypriot
Cypro-Geometric III, Early Iron Age
c. 850 – 700 BC
15.8 cm (w) x 38 mm (h)
(6 3/16” x 1 1/2”)
This
bowl has a hand-written export license number from
Cyprus Museum in Nicosia on its bottom, which was recorded prior to its shipping to UK, where it ended up in a private
collection in
Kent, UK, between the 1960's and 1980's.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164044https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/Roman_deans_hanger.jpgBowlRomanc. 2nd century AD
16.2 cm (w) x 73 mm (h)
(6.4” x 2.9”)
This gray ware
bowl, though ugly,
comes with unusually specific
provenance. It was excavated at Deans Hanger, Towcester, Northamptonshire,
England in 1972, before ending up in the private
collection of Michael Green of Tiverton,
England.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164043https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/Roman_Bowl_With_Barbotine_Decoration.jpgBowlRoman1st century AD
86 mm (w) x 30 mm (h)
(3 3/8" x 1 3/16”)
Ex. private
collection,
Paris,
France; inherited and formerly acquired in
North Africa during the early to mid-20th century.
Although acquired in
North Africa by those earlier collectors, a recognized
antiquities expert states, "The
bowl is likely of European manufacture and was exported in
antiquity to the
Roman North African colonies. I say this as the
red slip is a little
bit finer and glossier than the
Roman North African local production (mostly around modern Tunisia). Also, this
barbotine decoration was very popular throughout the
Roman Empire and therefore widely exported/traded."
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164034https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/Bucherro.jpgBucchero Ware ChaliceEtruscan/Etruria (Central
Italy)
c. 7th – 6th century BC
12.7 cm (w) x 89 mm (h)
(5” x 3.5”)
Ex-Wesley Laws
Collection, Palms
Spring, CA
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164040https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/Guttos.jpgGuttosGreek
c. 5th – 4th century BC
12 cm (l) x 60 mm (h)
(4 3/4” x 2 3/8”)
Formerly
part of two European
collections, the earlier formed mainly in the 1980’s.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-164041https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/Oil_Lamp.jpgOil LampGreek
c. 3rd – 1st century BC
98.4 mm (l) x 73 mm (w) x 33 mm (h)
(3 7/8” x 2 7/8” x 1 5/16”)
I'm not generally into
oil lamps (so to speak), but I
am partial to glazed
pottery. This
lamp has an oxidized black glaze.