Greek Ionian pottery figure aryballos, ex. Faber-Castell
Greek Ionian pottery figure aryballos, ex. Faber-Castell
Greek Ionian pottery figure aryballos, ex. Faber-Castell
Greek Ionian pottery figure aryballos, ex. Faber-Castell
Greek Ionian pottery figure aryballos, ex. Faber-Castell
Greek Ionian pottery figure aryballos, ex. Faber-Castell

Greek Ionian pottery figure aryballos, ex. Faber-Castell

G18

£500.00

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A burnished pottery “plastic” aryballos vessel in the form of a squatting man with a sagging pot-belly and exposed phallus. He wears an Egyptian type wig and his elbows rest on his knees with his hands drawn to his chest. The face is well-defined with typical Archaic features including an enigmatic smile and amygdaloid eyes.

Vessels such as this were used to contain scented oils, various shapes were produced including animals and humorous charicatures such as this example.

Culture
East Greek, probably Ionian, Archaic period, 6th Century BC

Size
9.2 x 4.9 cms

Condition
The surface worn to a smooth burnished patina, repair to both feet and light surface chipping; the opening above the head may originally have had a rim.

Provenance
Ex. The Erotica Collection of Christian von Faber-Castell, Switzerland; acquired late 1970’s. With Charles Ede Ltd, London, 1999. With Jean-David Cahn, Switzerland, 2014 (Cahn Auktionen AG, No. 9, lot 103). Ex. Dr Gerhard Miksche, Huddinge, Sweden, and by family descent since 2014. A photocopy of the 2014 Cahn auction receipt (with illustration) accompanies the figure. Ede inventory label number 1262 and Cahn label 103 under the base.

As a member of the aristocratic industrialist Faber-Castell family, Christian was able to collect from a young age and his antiquities were displayed at various times in German and Swiss museums before the collection was dispersed.

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