Tragara Press 14 volumes Gray, John. The Kiss. 1983, number 29 of 30 copies; Sitwell, Sacheverell. Agamemnon's Tomb. 1972, number 101 of 265 copies; Gray, John & Pierre Louÿs. A Friendship of the Nineties. 1984, number 14 of 120 copies; D'Arcy, Ella. Some Letters to John Lane. 1990, number 27 of 130 copies; Rolfe, Frederick William. Aberdeen Interval. Some letters... to Wilfrid Meynell. 1975, copy Q of 20 copies of Eltham hand-made paper, quarter cloth; Durrell, Lawrence. Lifelines. 1974, number 102 of 115 copies; Hardy, Thomas. The Poetry of William Barnes. 1979, number 25 of 95 copies; Falkner, John M. A Midsummer Night's Marriage. 1977, one of 25 additional copies, out of series, presented to Charles Ballantyne; Anderson, Alan. The Tragara Press 1979-1991. A Bibliography. 1991, number 14 of 70 copies; Price, J.V. Selected Poems of Alexander Robertson of Struan. 1971, limited to 120 copies, slight dustmark to wrapper; Burnett, David. Kantharos. 1989, limited to 110 copies; Burnett, David. Pharos. 1989, limited to 120 copies, presentation copy from author to Michael and Frances; Thomas, Edward. Autumn Thoughts. 1975, limited to 90 copies; Read, Herbert. Pursuits & Verdicts. 1983, number 49 of 135 copies, all in original wrappers except where noted (14)
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Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 20 volumes comprising Thomas, Edward. Autumn Thoughts. 1975, limited to 90 copies, marbled wrappers; Thomas, Edward. Reading out of Doors. 1978, number 92 of 110 copies, green wrappers; Thomas, Edward. The Fear of Death. 1982, number 35 of 95 copies, marbled wrappers; Burnett, David. Kantharos. 1989, limited to 110 copies, maroon wrappers; Cavafy. Three Poems, translated by Lawrence Durrell. 1980, number 70 of 95 copies, pale blue wrappers; Mason, Jeremy. Oscar Wilde - Graham Hill. 1982, 26 of 75 copies, marbled wrappers; Wilde, Oscar. Berneval an Unpublished Letter. 1981, number 45 of 75 copies, marbled wrappers; Borrow, George. A Journey to Eastern Europe in 1844. 1981, number 50 of 140 copies, green wrappers; Borrow, George. Letters to John Hasfeld 1835-1839. 1982, number 42 of 140 copies, maroon wrappers; Frankau, Pamela. A Letter from R*b*cc* W*est. 1986, 46 of 95 copies, decorative wrappers; Read, Herbert. Pursuits & Verdicts. 1983, 47 of 135 copies, pale brown wrappers; Blackwood, Algernon. A Mysterious House. 1987, number 30 of 125 copies, blue wrappers; Symons, A.J.A. A.J.A. Symons to Wyndham Lewis. 1982, number 32 of 120 copies, marbled wrappers; O'Connor, Frank. Two-Hundredth Birthday. 1986, number 59 of 120 copies, decorative wrappers; Stoker, Bram. The Dualitists. 1986, number 94 of 125 copies, red wrappers; Gray, John. Old Gough. 1990, number 9 of 75 copies, blue wrappers; Hardy, Thomas. The Poetry of William Barnes. 1979. number 76 of 95 copies, marbled wrappers; Sims, George. Sixteen Poems. 1995, number 78/85 copies, green wrappers; Andrews, Lisa. Sixteen Poems. 2010. One of 10 copies, autograph letter from Alan Anderson loosely inserted, blue wrappers; Reed, Jeremy. Quentin Crisp as Prime Minister. Privately Printed, 1999, proof copy, unnumbered, turquoise wrappers (20)
3rd century AD. A gold finger ring with facetted hoop, ellipsoid cell to the bezel with inset carnelian gemstone, intaglio image of a kantharos; accompanied by a museum-quality impression.Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 183, for type; see for the iconography Furtwängler, A., Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im Klassischen Altertum, Leipzig and Berlin, 1900, pl.XXXI,14.5.88 grams, 24.07mm overall, 19.63mm internal diameter (approximate size British S, USA 9, Europe 20, Japan 19) (1"). From the collection of a Surrey gentleman; acquired 1970-1980.From the middle of the 3rd century AD, gem production in the Roman Empire declined rapidly. At the same time the first Christian motifs began to be visible on the rings. Fine condition. A large wearable size.
Interessante Sammlung von vier Mittelmeer Gefäßkeramiken. 1 Oinochoe mit faßförmigem Körper. Rotfigurig bemalt mit Dionysos auf dem Panther reitend. Den oberen Abschluß bildet ein Eierstabornament, innen und aussen mit weisslichen Ablagerungen, H.: ca. 36 cm/1 bauchiges Gefäß mit Trichtermündung und zwei seitlichen Henkeln. Rotfigurig bemalt mit zwei Figuren, H.: 19 cm, leicht verkrustet sowie weissliche Ablagerungen/1 Kantharos aus hellbraunem Ton mit rötlicher Bemalung von Zierbändern, H.: 11 cm, besch./1 bauchiger Henkelkrug aus gräulichem Ton mit rötlich-braunen, umlaufenden Bändern verziert, H.: 13 cm, partiell Verkrustungen und alte Bestoßungen am Mündungsrand. Seit vor 1970 in deutschem Privatbesitz. | An interesting collection of 4 pottery jugs, Mediterranea, partly damaged.
Tragara Press, 16 volumes, comprising Thomas, Edward Letters to America, 1989, number 14 of 140 copies (one of 30 on Vélin Arches paper), original patterned wrappers; Borrow, George A Journey to Eastern Europe, 1981, number 51 of 140 copies, original dark green wrappers; [Idem] Letters to John Hasfeld 1841-1846, 1984, number 22 of 150 copies, original brown wrappers; O'Sullivan, Vincent Marcel Schwob Memories and Letters, 2004, number 9 of 75 copies, original purple wrappers; [Idem] Some Letters to A.J.A. Symons, 1975, number 85 of 130 copies, original marbled wrappers; Symons, Julian 1948 and 1984, 1984, number 30 of 135 copies, original wrappers; Symons, A.J.A. A.J.A. Symons to Wyndham Lewis, twenty-four letters, 1982, number 33 of 120 copies, original marbled wrappers; Gray, John Old Gough, 1990, number 28 of 75 copies, original blue wrappers; Blackwood, Algernon A Mysterious House, 1987, number 29 of 125 copies, original blue wrappers; Humphries, Barry Shades of Sandy Stone, 1989, proof copy, original brown wrappers; Burnett, David Kantharos, 1989, one of 110 copies, original maroon wrappers; [Idem] Pharos, 1989 one of one hundred copies, original maroon wrappers; Housman, A.E. Fifteen Letters to Walter Ashburner, 1976, one of 125 copies (and one of 25 printed for the editor, inscribed to Charles Ballantyne), original blue wrappers; Anderson, Alan The Tragara Press 1954-1979, a bibliography, 1979, number 119 of 135 copies, original quarter cloth; and another copy, 56/135; [Idem] The Tragara Press 1979-1991, a bibliography, 1991, number 15 of 70 copies, original red wrappers; [AND] many leaves of proof copies, some corrected, for Tragara Press publications (16)
5th-4th century BC. A silver two-handled drinking cup with a flared foot, plain body with everted rim; two applied loop handles with scallop shell finials; on one handle a punched inscription, probably representing the maker’s mark. See Strong, D.E., Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate, Glasgow, 1966; Davis-Kimball, J., Bashilov, V.A., Yablonsky, L.T., Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age, Berkeley, 1995; Gavriljuk, N.A., Social and Economic Stratification of the Scythians from the Steppe Region Based on black-glazed pottery from burials, 2009; Meyer, C., Greco-Scythian art & the birth of Eurasia, from classical Antiquity to Russian Modernity, Oxford, 2013.203 grams, 16cm wide (6 1/4"). Ex private collection of Mr M. B., Mainz, Germany, since the 1980s; accompanied by an archaeological expertise by Dr. Raffaele D’Amato; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10387-169244. The kantharos, a type of drinking cup with high handles, was the attribute of the god Dionysus (Bacchus for the Romans) and its form recalls the kantharoi of 5th-4th century BC (Walters Art Gallery, inv.57.934, see Strong, 1966, plate 9b"). This double-shelled cup was assembled from separate parts, including the foot and the two sections of the handles. It is a masterwork of Graeco-Scythian art, or better so of Greek art often found in the Scythian graves. Since the 6th century BC, kantharoi could be found in graves of wealthy barbarian princes living at the fringes of the Greek world, like the chieftains of the Dassaretioi (Illyrians) buried in the grave of Trebenishte, where the three silver kantharoi found were imported from Greece. In the Black Sea cemeteries situated in the vicinities of Greek towns of Pontus, both Scythian male and female graves of the 4th century BC, often contained some Greek amphorae and black burnished drinking vessels, kantharoi, or a kylix, or Scythian pottery located next to the sacrificial meat. In the tumulus of Karagodeuashkh, in the region of lower Kuban, in an ashlar built tomb, a silver cup was found, and inside the male grave of the second chamber several silver kylixes and a skyphos were found (Meyer, 2013, pp. 363ff.), other two-handled or plain silver cups were also found in various graves (Meyer, 2013, pp.326, 331, 348"). [A video of this lot is available to view on TimeLine Auctions website.] Very fine condition.
Keramik aus Etrurien, Mitte 7.Jh.v.Chr.- Anfang 4.Jh.v.Chr. - dünnwandige, hohe Trinkschale mit 2 großen, flachen Bandhenkeln, sog. Kantharos. Aus schwarzer Buccherokeramik. Restauriert. Aus alter Privatsammlung. Mit altersbedingten Gebrauchsspuren. Pottery from Etruria, middle 7th century BC - beginning of 4th century BC - Thin-walled, high drinking bowl with 2 large, flat ribbon handles, so-called Kantharos. Made of black bucchero ceramic. Restored. From old private collection. With traces of use due to age.
Keramik aus Etrurien, Mitte 7.Jh.v.Chr. - Anfang 4.Jh.v.Chr. - Trinkschale mit 2 Henkeln, sog. Kantharos. Gefäßkörper mit Punkten, Linien und Hervorhebungen dekorativ ausgeschmückt. Henkel verschlungen. Schwarze Buccherokeramik. Höhe ca.10 cm. Restauriert. Aus alter Privatsammlung. Altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren. Pottery from Etruria, Middle 7th century BC - beginning of 4th century BC - Drinking bowl with 2 handles, so called Kantharos.The body of the bowl is decoratively decorated with dots, lines and accentuations. Handles intertwined. Black bucchero ceramic. Height ca.10 cm. Restored. From an old private collection. Signs of usage due to age.
Etruskischer Kantharos. Ende 7. Jh. v. Chr. H 12,2cm, B 19,1cm. Bucchero. Konischer Kelch mit zwei Schlaufenhenkeln u. Trompetenfuß. Intakt, partiell mit Sinterresten und rotbraunen Auflagen. Etruscan bucchero kantharos. End of 7th century B.C. Intact, partially with rest of sinter and reddish brown covering.VERKAUFT WIE BESEHEN, KEINE RÜCKGABE! / SOLD AS VIEWED, NO RETURN! Provenienz: Ex Sammlung R.Villinger-Schmeller, Bayern, erworben vor 1980.
Dionysos mit Panther. Myrina, 2. Hälfte 1. Jh. v. Chr. H 16,5cm. Rotbraune Terrakotta. Matrizengeformt, Rückseite handmodelliert. Auf rechteckiger Basis nackter Dionysos mit langem, lockigen Haar, Efeu-Korymben-Kranz und Schultermantel, in der Linken einen Thyrsos, die Rechte hielt einen Kantharos. Zu seinen Füßen ein Panther. Kopf und oberer Teil des Thyrsos gebrochen und wieder angesetzt, rechte Hand fehlt, Sinterreste. Ein ähnliches Stück bei Gorny & Mosch München Auktion 260, 2018, Los 87. Dionysos with panther and thyrsos. Reddish brown terracotta. Myrina, 2nd half 1st century B.C. Head and part of thyrsos broken and reassembled, right hand with kantharos is missing, rest of sinter. Provenienz: Ex Sammlung R.Villinger-Schmeller, Bayern, erworben vor 1980.
A Greek bronze kantharos and a Greek bronze bowl Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.The kantharos set on a banded stemmed foot, the slender handles with leaf-shaped terminals, 11cm high; the bowl of hemispherical form with everted rim, an incised band beneath the rim and at the shoulder, the base of the exterior decorated with a large rosette, 13.5cm diam. (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 75 and 76.Private collection, West Coast USA, acquired at the above sale.For a bronze kantharos with similar handles and stemmed foot, found in Northern Greece, near Thessaloniki, see C. Rolley, Les Bronzes Grecs, Fribourg, 1983, p. 240, no. 288.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Italy Calabria 281-272 BC,Taras, Ar didrachm, weighs 6.39g, O. naked boy seated on horse standing right, which he crowns, R.Taras seated sideways on dolphin left, holding Kantharos and cornucopiae. G.C.V 374 variety. About extremely fine. (1)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A miscellaneous group of antiquities and later items, including a handled vessel with worn glaze, the shoulder decorated with two facing panthers flanking a central swan, two worn images of animals on the neck, the lower body decorated with banding and rows of vertical wavy lines and petals, possibly Corinthian,18.2cm high, lip broken and missing, surface worn; a Roman glass unguentarium with pear-shaped body, 12cm high; a biscuit-coloured flat-bodied pottery pilgrim flask, probably Roman or earlier, 16cm high; a red glazed slender pottery vessel with side loop handle, 13cm high; a buff-pottery miniature Roman 'feeder' vessel with side loop handle and spout, 7.1cm high; a hollow terracotta figure of a draped female, Roman or earlier, 14cm high; a black-glazed kantharos, with high-looped handles, set on a pedestal foot, possibly ancient Etruscan bucchero ware, 13.2cm high, with a red wax seal; two ancient loom weights; a grey ware pottery oil lamp moulded with the head of Bes at the nozzle and two other pottery oil lamps, probably not ancient and a small limestone architectural element, 8cm(13) Provenance: By repute acquired by Sir William Whitfield in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1940's This lot is to be sold without reserve
* Goldicutt (John, 1793-1842). Architectural Studies, Rome, 1817, watercolour on paper, depicting the base of an elaborately carved classical column with an Etruscan vase and a kantharos on top, one half of a stone lunette carved with volutes and flowers, and a stone tomb featuring griffins and mask, against a stone wall with landscape vista of mountains to the left, signed in pencil upper right 'John Goldicutt, Rome, 1817', top edge with tiny chip and very small closed tear, 13 x 18.5 cm (5 x 7.25 in), trimmed and tipped onto card (inscription just touched by trimming), mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESArchitect John Goldicutt is better known for his architectural drawings - for which he won several medals - than for his buildings, and a number of books were published containing his work, including The Antiquities of Sicily (1819) and Specimens of Ancient Decorations from Pompeii (1825). His meticulously detailed original drawings seldom come onto the market.
Early 13th century AD. An iron longsword of Oakeshott's Type XIIIA, cross style 1, pommel type H; a 'Bastard' sword (sword that can also be used with two hands), with long tapering blade, cutting edges running nearly parallel to the tip; just below the hilt, before the edges begin their virtual straight running to the point, the blade is swelling slightly in width; the narrow fullers extended for two-thirds of its length; the lower guard is simple and straight; the grip is longer than usual of type XIII allowing for the off-hand to be used for extra leverage and power; the pommel is highly decorated with two different inlays, from one side a circular space divided in eight sections, the other side with a possible heraldic symbol, representing a triangular shield decorated with embossed annulets surmounting a kantharos from which water is springing; both images are inscribed inside a golden circle; some corrosions on the lower edges but no evidence of traces of fighting nicks, both cutting edges are well preserved; German or English manufacture. See Petersen, J., De Norske Vikingsverd, Oslo, 1919; Shetelig, H., Scandinavian Archaeology, Oxford, 1937; Oakeshott, E.,The archaeology of the weapons, arms and armours from Prehistory to the age of Chivalry, Woodbridge, 1960 (1999); Oakeshott, E., The sword in the Age of the Chivalry, Woodbridge, 1964 (1994); Oakeshott, E., Records of the Medieval Sword, Woodbridge, 1991; the sword, belongs to the type of 'war sword' and finds a good correspondence with various swords of the first half of the 14th century, like some specimens preserved in the Museum Art Gallery of Glasgow (Oakeshott, 1991, pp.103 n.7; 105, nn.10-11); for what concern the cross-guard, it is of a simple and obvious form, a straight bar tapering slightly toward the ends; first found in Viking graves of the 10th century (s. Shetelig, 1937), and called by the Vikings Gaddhjalt (Spike-Hilt, s. Petersen, 1919), it was still in use in the Renaissance (Oakeshott, 1994, p.113 and plates IC, 6A and 46B), generally square in section, it may sometimes be circular, or in rare, late cases octagonal; pommel forms vary very often on the survival specimens, though the wheel shape from H to K predominate; crosses both on surviving example and those shown in the art are nearly always straight, generally of type 1 or 2; there are some excellent pictures of these swords in an English manuscript of the early years of the fourteenth century (B.M. MS. Roy. 19.B.XV, an Apocalypse of St. John (Oakeshott, 1994, fig.89-90); nearly every German military tomb effigy of the period between about 1280-1350 AD has one of these big swords and several are shown on English effigies, as for instance at Astbury in Cheshire; one very good example on an English tomb is difficult to see—a little mounted figure high up on the canopy of Edmund Crouchback's tomb in Westminster Abbey; Edmund was the Earl of Lancaster, second son of Henry III, and died in 1296. It is possible to see it if you climb up into the Islip Chapel in the North Choir aisle, for this is raised about 30 ft. above the level of the floor; look across the aisle over the parapet of the chapel which spans the arch containing it and there is this small knight with a great war sword girt to his waist (Oakeshott,1994, fig.92); another of an earlier date is to be found in an admirable little drawing of a knight fighting a giant upon a page of a small Psalter made for the eldest son of Edward I of England, Alphonso, who died in 1284 (Oakeshott, 1994, fig.91"). 1.3 kg, 1.03m (40 1/2").From an important private family collection of arms and armour; acquired on the European art market in the 1980s, and thence by descent; accompanied by an academic report by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato.A long double-handed sword, Oakeshott type XIIIa; the most beautiful element of this sword is its decorative pommel, of type H in the Oakeshott classification (Oakeshott, 1994, p.95"). This is one of the commonest of all medieval pommels, where the edges of the disc are chamfered off on each face, giving a low prominence on either side, the inner, flat faces being about a quarter less in diameter than the outer rim. It is found on swords of every type from the 10th century until the early 15th century AD, and after three-quarters of a century of apparent unpopularity it appears again, rarely, between c.1500-1525. What is extraordinary is not the pommel in itself, but the inlaid decoration over it. The shield with annulets ('little rings' in heraldry) visible on one side is a common charge, which may allude to the custom of the prelates to receive their investiture per baculum et annulum i.e. 'by rod and by ring', and can also be described as a roundel that has been 'voided' (ie. with its centre cut out"). In medieval English heraldry, annulets could represent a fifth son. The shield is surmounted by a pot from which water is springing, an obvious connection with the biblical passage: 'Jesus answered: Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life'' (John, IV,13-14"). The solar disc on the other side of the pommel evokes Christ's ancient monogram. These references to Christian symbolism suggest that the owner of the sword was an clergyman, maybe the fifth son of an aristocratic English family.Fine condition. Very rare.
A gilt bronze and marble mounted model of a Roman kantharos drinking cup, after a 1st century A.D. silver original from the Boscoreale Hoard, late 19th century, of ovoid form and cast in relief overall with berried foliage, beneath twin loop and spur handles, with circular base, mounted onto a waisted marmo rouge griotte plinth, 22.5cm high overall, together with a silvered metal model of a Roman kantharos cup, the Pompeiian silver centaur cup, late 19th century, twin handles and cast to each side with figures in high relief, 17cm high, 17cm wide, and a pair of gilt and patinated metal twin handled tazzas, late 19th century, 14cm high, 19cm wide The Boscoreale Treasure is a large collection of luxury Roman objects discovered in the ruins of an ancient villa at Boscoreale, near Pompeii in Italy in 1895. Consisting of over a hundred pieces of silverware, as well as gold coins and jewellery, it is now held mostly at the Louvre Museum in Paris, with other parts of the hoard held at the British Museum The centaur kantharos along with 13 other Roman silver vessels was discovered in 1835 in the Casa dei Vasi d'Argento in Pompeii. It was much reproduced and offered as a Grand Tour souvenir
4th century AD or earlier. A rectangular panel of mosaic tesserae, mainly 8-10mm in size, in a plaster matrix; central ribbed kantharos executed in coral pink and amber-yellow with green segments, tiered foot; issuing from the scaphoid opening two vines with curled tendrils and trefoil leaves in pale green; white field with grey-black border. See Pappalardo, U. Greek and Roman Mosaics New York, 2019; cf. Neal, D.S. & Cosh, S.R. Roman Mosaics of Britain. Vol I. Northern Britain, Society of Antiquaries, London, 2002; Watts, D.J. Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain, Abingdon, 1991. 56 kg, 67.5 x 67.5cm (26 1/2 x 26 1/2"). Property of a Cambridgeshire lady; formerly in the Igor Karmiloff collection (1925-2016), UN economist and author of Flashbacks, Icons of Impermanence, Bloomington, 2009; acquired in the 1950s-early 1990s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 141579-10005. The motif of the kantharos, krater or amphora with vines emerging from the mouth is widely represented in classical art and was seemingly a popular motif for the mosaicist with examples found in areas as widespread as North Africa and northern Britain. The origins of the motif are probably to be found in the cult of Bacchus (Greek Dionysos) with its ritualised drunkenness expressed in the vine which gives rise to the grapes to be transformed into wine, and the drinking cup from which it is received. In later Roman times, the motif was reinterpreted as Christ (the Eucharist symbolised by the cup) from whom the vine grows representing the spread of the Christian message and the growth of the church (Watts, 1991, p.208"). Fine condition.
A Tiffany Enameled 18K Gold Cup Presented to Charles L. Tiffany and wife, Harriet Olivia Young on the Occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary, 1891. Commissioned by Charles T. Cook, then vice president of Tiffany & Co. and designed by Cook's nephew, Paulding Farnham. 8 ¾" high. Presented to Charles Lewis Tiffany and his wife Harriet on November 30, 1891. Modelled after an ancient kantharos, the presentation cup is adorned with palmettes, rinceau and tongue-etched designs; below the lip are white enamel bosses fashioned to resemble pearls. Hallmarked and signed below. Presentation legend engraved on the bottom, along with a series of interesting familial bequeathments (the cup went to Bingham Tiffany in 1906 from his grandmother, etc). Tiffany & Co was born when Charles L. Tiffany and his friend John P. Young opened their first store in 1837 under the name Tiffany & Young, specializing in stationary and dry goods. They took on another partner in 1841 and renamed the firm Tiffany, Young & Elis. In that same year, Charles married Harriet Olivia Young, the sister of his original partner. Charles bought out his partners in 1853 and changed the company's name to Tiffany & Co. Tiffany had begun selling European silver in the 1840's, but a protective tariff led the company to turn to American silver in 1851 and Tiffany established its own workshop. The company soon became widely known for its innovative designs and masterful artistry. In a fitted Tiffany case. A classic presentation cup both historic and of the highest craftsmanship. Purchased by the present owner from Sotheby's in the 1980's (January 23-25, "Fine Americana", lot 111).
Thebes, Boeotia, Circa AR Triobol (Hemidrachm), 426-395 BC, Boeotian shield rev. ?E-BH, Kantharos, horizontal club above, 2.43g, (BMC p. 76, 78, SNG Copenhagen 290); Sikyon, Peloponnesos, AR Triobol, c.360-330 BC, Chimera standing left,SI below, rev. dove flying left, three dots in right field, 2.66g, (SNG Copenhagen 64-65, BMC 124, BCD 294); Euboea, Histiaia, AR Tetrobol, c.146 BC, head of nymph Histiaea in wreath, rev. nymph Histiaea seated right on stern of galley, AP monogram below, trident at lower right, 2.37g, (BMC41). Fine to nearly very fine
Greece, Tanagra, Boeotia, ca. 450 BCE. A pair of identical, large, lovely wheel-thrown kantharoi, each with finely-shaped strap handles, a deep interior bowl, and a wide, rounded foot. The interior and exterior surfaces boast layers of lustrous black glaze, and faint areas of silvery iridescence provide for a nice chromatic complementarity. The kantharos is regularly depicted as an attribute of Dionysus and is regularly used for drinking wine or other liquids. These particularly large examples would have held quite a lot of wine! Size of one (they are almost identical in size): 10" W x 8.25" H (25.4 cm x 21 cm) Provenance: ex-private A.A. collection, Munich, Germany, acquired between 1992 and 1996 Condition: Handles on both have been repaired and restored; this is expertly done and very difficult to see. Otherwise in very nice condition with small scratches and chips commensurate with age. Beautiful silvery iridescence on surface. 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 winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #146805
Ca. 400 BC Rare and well preserved ancient Greek Messapian kantharos from Southern Italy. Decorated with linear bands and palmettes in orange and brown on a buff body.Good Condition; Intact; 165x135mm; 320gr; Private London collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK and European art market; All Items sold by Pax Romana Auctions come with professional Certificate of Authenticity and FREE domestic and international shipping.
Daunian kantharos with stylised gazelles. ‘Native Italic kantharos, 6 th century BC. Body of elliptical form with funnel mouth and strap handles, banded geometric decoration including red and black bands and motif of gazelles’. - 175mm,615gr - ca.600Bc - Property of a British collector; acquired in the 1980s. - All items come with Free International postage, accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity .
4th century BC. A group of three miniature Xenon-ware vessels comprising: an olpe vase with single lateral handle, painted ochre lotus buds to the shoulder and tendril pattern to the body; a kantharos with lateral handles and ochre palmette detail to the body; a kantharos with lateral handles and ochre Greek key pattern to the body. 136 grams total, 46-57mm (1 7/8 - 2 1/4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; previously from a 1980s London collection. [3, No Reserve] Fine condition, repaired.
South Italian, 5th-4th century BC. A black-glaze kantharos with bell-shaped body, sharply carinated to the bottom and flared to the rim; tall stemmed foot with central moulding and splayed base; high strap handles extending above the rim; body decorated with incised tendrils above a band of scrolls. 455 grams, 24cm (9 1/2"). Property of a North London gentleman; formerly in a old Cambridgeshire collection. Fine condition.
A VICTORIAN ELECTOGILT MOUNTED SEPIOLITE REPLICA OF A CLASSICAL ROMAN KANTHAROS BY ELKINGTON & CO, C1860 carved in high relief with centaurs and putti, 15cm h, stamped PUBD BY ELKINGTON & CO, mounted on ebonised plinth beneath a glass domeAccording to a cutting from a Christie's catalogue of the sale of the late C H T Hawkins Collection of Ivories, the original from which the present replica was produced by Elkington in the mid 19th c was sold on October 28, 1936.A similar Elkington & Co example in silver with identical handles, rim and foot but a somewhat different arrangement of centaurs was produced as a replica of a kantharos excavated at Pompeii in 1835, and was sold Christie's, May 1, 2012, lot 170.++Several small chips to carving
Lucania, Metapontum, ca. 280 BC. AR Nomos (7.84 g). Bearded head of Herakles r., wearing thin hair band over curled hair; club over shoulder and lion's skin secured by knotted paws at truncation. Rev. META to left, six-grained barley ear with leaf to right; kantharos above leaf, BI below. Johnston Class D4.2 (same dies); Noë/Johnston D 4.2; Rutter, Historia Numorum 1621. Boldly struck in high relief, strike a little weak on grain ear. The work of a master die engraver. Rare. Underlying luster present and beautifully toned. Extremely Fine. Ex CNG Sale 49, March 17, 1999, lot 88.
Samaria, Nysa-Scythopolis. M. Licinius Crassus. Æ (6.83 g), Proconsul, 54-53 BC. CY 10 (54 BC)(?). Head of the proconsul Crassus right. Rev. ?AB NY in two lines in left field, Dionysos standing facing, head left, holding kantharos and thyrsus; in right field, date (L H sic (?); in exergue, [?]. Cf. Barkay 5 (year 10; same obv. die); cf. Rosenberger 3; cf. RPC 4827. Fantastic portrait! Dark olive-green patina. EF/VF. From the Palm Desert Collection. Purchased from Superior in the 1980s. This interesting coin was struck shortly before Crassus' fateful campaign against the Parthians where he was killed, losing nearly the entirety of the Roman forces he had taken with him. RPC identifies the portrait of Crassus' predecessor, Gabinius, but Barkay argues for Crassus based on the dissimilarity of the portrait on this coin to that on the coins of Gabinius.The date on the reverse of this coin normally reads year 10 (L I). Here, however, it reads year 8 (L H). Considering that Crassus was still in Rome in 56 BC and that the obverse of this coin shares its die with the issue dated year 10 (see Barkay pl. 1, 5), it seems the date on this coin must be an engraver's error.
Boeotia, Federal Coinage, Silver Hemidrachm (2.70 g, 12h), 395-340 BC. Boeotian shield. Rev. Kantharos, above, club right, BO-I and vertical crescent across lower field, all within concave circle (Head, Boeotia p. 78; SNG Copenhagen -; Traité III p. 311, 370, pl. CCIV, 34; SNG Fitzwilliam 2966). Attractive iridescent toning, Extremely Fine.
Thraco-Macedonian Region AR Hemiobol. Uncertain mint, 5th century BC. Facing gorgoneion / Kantharos in incuse square. Tzamalis -, cf. 58/50; SNG ANS -; Klein 154 (Neapolis); Roma e39, 153. 0.35g, 7mm, 11h. Very Fine. From a private German collection. Although Klein attributes this type to Neapolis, the style of the gorgoneion is quite dissimilar, and the kantharos is unlikely to have been used as a type there.
Greek South Italian Messapian Terracotta Kantharos3rd – 4th Century BC.A beautiful pottery kantharos with long elongated handles and ring base. A lovely example with a beautiful mottled finish to the interior and exterior. Ex. Cambridge Collection, UK, Acquired in April 2015. 17cm handle to handle.
Troas, Abydos AR Half Siglos. Circa 350-325 BC. Anaxikles, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Eagle standing left; kantharos and ABY before, ANA??K?H? behind. BMC 12; SNG München 6; SNG Ashmolean 961 var. (ivy leaf on reverse); SNG Copenhagen 6-7 var. (same). 2.44g, 16mm, 10h. About Very Fine.
Naxos, tetradrachm, c. 460 BC, by the Aetna Master, bearded head of Dionysos right wearing ivy wreath, hair tied in krobylos at back of neck, rev., Ν-ΑΧΙ-ΟΝ, Silenos, nude, bearded and ithyphallic, squatting on the ground, his head turned towards kantharos held in his right hand and supporting himself with his left, 17.44g, die axis 4.00 (Cahn 54; Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 12; BMC 7; SNG ANS 515; SNG Lloyd 1150; Kraay-Hirmer 6, all from the same dies), slight tooling in obverse field, very fine and very rare. Provenance: European collection formed in the 1920s; Morton & Eden 68, 10 June 2014, lot 7. Naxos was the earliest Greek settlement in Sicily, evidently founded around 735 BC, just one year before Syracuse. Its population was forcibly moved to Leontini by the tyrant Hieron of Syracuse and on the fall of the Syracusan tyranny the inhabitants were repatriated in 461 BC. It is believed that this special issue, only known from one pair of dies, was struck in celebration of this event. The issue is regarded as a masterpiece of Greek numismatic art of the late archaic/early classical period and has been compared stylistically to the famous unique tetradrachm of Aetna in Brussels so that it is generally attributed to the Aetna Master.
Ancient Coins, Greek, Macedon, Mende (c.450-425 BC), silver tetradrachm, Dionysos in a drunken state, holding a kantharos in his r. hand, reclining to l., on an ass walking to r., on an exergual line, rev. MEN-ΔA-IO-N around linear frame enclosing a vine with four bunches of grapes, all within an incuse square, wt. 16.97gms. (Noe, Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard, ANS. NNM. 27, 1926, Group III, pl. IX, 84; SNG. ANS. 346), attractive iridescent cabinet tone, nearly extremely fine/very fine, rare *ex Spink Numismatic Circular, April 2005, vol CXIII, no.2, item GK1521 (illustrated on the front cover)
Calabria, Tarentum AR Nomos. Circa 330-325 BC. Nude youth on horse prancing to right, holding rein and crowning horse with wreath; above, Nike flying to right, crowning youth with open wreath; ?IM below / Taras astride dolphin to left, holding kantharos and cradling trident with left arm; |-HP and waves below, [TAPA?] behind. Fischer-Bossert Group 62, 785-8 var. (V308/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Vlasto 503; HN Italy 886; SNG Lockett 174 (same obv. die). 7.87g, 22mm, 9h. Extremely Fine. Ex Dorotheum, 16 November 2016, lot 29; Ex Ernst Justus Haeberlin Collection.
Umbria, Tuder Cast Æ Uncia. Circa 220-200 BC. Squat kantharos; pellet (mark of value) above / Spear-head; pellet (mark of value) to left, VT to right. ICC 221; Haeberlin pl. 81; HN Italy 45. 22.05g, 28mm, 12h. Very Fine. Rare. From a private Swiss collection, outside of Italy prior to January 2011.
Sicily, Naxos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 460 BC. Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath, his hair tied in a krobylos behind / Nude, bearded and ithyphallic Silenos squatting facing, head left, holding kantharos in right hand, leaning on left; NAXION around. Cahn 54 (same dies); SNG ANS 515 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1150 (same dies); SNG Lockett 840 (same dies); Gulbenkian 230-231 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 2 (same dies); Jenkins 673 (same dies); SNG Fitzwilliam 1108 (same dies); Kunstfreund 95 (same dies); Kraay-Hirmer 6 (same dies); Randazzo 227-231 (all from same dies). 17.22g, 30mm, 3h. Extremely Fine, with a deep, beautiful old cabinet tone. Very Rare. Ex Hess-Divo 329, 17 November 2015, lot 20; Ex Roma Numismatics VII, 20 March 2014, lot 131; Ex James Howard (1937-2009) Collection, purchased from Credit Suisse Bern in 1983, and probably from the Randazzo Hoard of 1980. One of the great masterpieces of fifth century Greek numismatic art, and one of the most famous of all Greek coins. Produced from a single set of dies, this tetradrachm was struck in commemoration of the refoundation of the city of Naxos following the return of its citizens from their forced relocation to Leontinoi by the tyrant Hieron of Syracuse. Undoubtedly the most accomplished engraver of his time, this artist is also believed to have been responsible for the unique Brussels Aetna tetradrachm - in both cases his work is a tour de force that showcases his singular ability. On the present piece, the obverse presents us with a refined portrait of Dionysos, which though bearing distinctly archaised features such as the arrangement of the god's hair, wreath and beard, shows his eye in profile. This, combined with the god's merry expression and the deliberate extension of the design through the dotted border indicate clear progression of style away from the more formal and rigid types of previous decades. The result is, of course, the most iconic and artistically meritorious portrait of Dionysos in all of ancient coinage. Yet it is upon the reverse that the artist has worked a wonder that has earned this type such a lofty reputation as one of the most desired of all ancient Greek coins, and the most costly of all the tetradrachms. Here, the artist's composition combines handsome naturalistic musculature with a unique and inspired design of Silenos drunkenly gazing into his wine cup as he supports himself with his other hand. In choosing to depict Silenos facing the viewer, the artist not only proves his ability to render the design in adept relief and detail, he also effortlessly demonstrates an advanced understanding and application of the principle of foreshortening in Silenos' right leg and foot. It is this combination of a striking, masterful image of Dionysos with such a remarkable reverse scene that was so far ahead of its time that has led so many to acclaim it a triumph of late archaic art.
South Italian, 5th-4th century BC. A black-glaze kantharos with bell-shaped body, sharply carinated to the bottom and flared to the rim; tall stemmed foot with central moulding and splayed base; high strap handles extending above the rim; body decorated with ivy leaves and tendrils above a band of scrolls. 490 grams, 24cm tall (9 1/2"). Property of a North London gentleman; formerly in an old Cambridge collection. Fine condition.
Macedon, Akanthos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 470-430 BC. Attic standard. Lion right, attacking bull crouching left with head half-facing; kantharos between ivy leaves in exergue / AKAN?ION in shallow incuse around quadripartite square, the quarters raised and granulated. Unpublished in the standard references, but cf. Heritage 3066, for a similar tetradrachm with kantharos and ivy exergual design. 17.44g, 28mm, 10h. Good Very Fine. Lustrous, with light golden iridescence. Unique and unpublished.
A black glazed pottery kantharos wine cup with a wide body and two ring handles surmounted by horizontal thumb-spurs. Ex. Collection: Livingston Ludlow Biddle [USA, 1877-1959]. Acquired in 1903 while touring the Mediterranean on board Alcedo, at the time the largest private yacht in the world belonging to his uncle George Drexel. Biddle was descended from a wealthy Philadelphia banking family and devoted much of his time to the arts. His son helped create the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA]. The glamorous steam and sailing yacht Alcedo was built in Glasgow Scotland in 1895. She was 300 foot long and required 100 crew to operate. She was enlisted into the US Navy in 1917 and became the first American ship to be sunk by enemy action during World War 1 with the loss of 21 souls. 104mm.
Greek pottery two handled vase circa 4th or 3rd century BC. A buff Messapian two handled kantharos from the Greek south Italian colonies. This piece is very well potted with attractive red decoration in concentric lines to the neck, body and base of the pot. The item is in excellent condition and is complete and intact. A good display piece from an old English collection. Size: 160 x 180mm including handles. Very good condition.
Kantharos Mosaic, 2nd-3rd century AD. A rectangular mosaic panel with a two handles kantharos to the centre, sybol of Dionysus, god of wine.59cm including frame. Ex. London Gentleman private collection, acquired legally over the last 20 years. Declaration of provenance: All provenance details are supplied by the vendor (consignor) – Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers supply a Certificate of Authenticity with all antiquities sold showing authenticity. Provenance and known details recorded on this.
"Kingdom of Macedon, Kassander AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III. Amphipolis, circa 315-294 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, Λ above torch in left field, kantharos below throne. Price 468. 17.10g, 26mm, 9h.Very Fine."
"Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. Myrina(?), circa 261-246 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Herakles seated left on rock draped with lion skin, holding club set on ground; arrow to outer left, kantharos to outer right, monogram in exergue. Apparently unpublished, for a similar type cf. SC 501; cf. SC 503 (same obverse die). 17.04g, 28mm, 12h.Very Fine. Test cut to obverse. Apparently unpublished in the standard references. "
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