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This is the rating and price for Byzantine Glazed Graffiato-Ware Jar



Description : with slightly concave base and pyriform body with flaring mouth, the exterior freely incised and painted in green and brown with the figure of a nereid floating in a field including swimming fish, a heraldic eagle holding grapevine in its beak, another eagle and smaller birds in flight, and a trident(?) resting on a groundline with lotus festoon.
Price: 19 200.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 10000 USD-15000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 336
Title : Byzantine Glazed Graffiato-Ware Jar
Size : height 11 1/4 in. 28.6 cm.
Provenance : PROPERTY FROM THE CHARLES PANKOW COLLECTIONDikran Khan Kelekian, Paris and New YorkCharles Dikran Kelekian, New YorkDr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Guilford, Connecticut (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 4th, 1974, no. 217, illus.)Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 13th, 1979, no. 113, illus.
Literature : Dikran Kelekian, The Kelekian Collection of Persian and Analogous Potteries, 1885-1910, Paris, 1910, pl. 5, the text notes that this vase was found together with some Coptic manuscripts in a ruined monastery at Akmim [Upper Egypt]. Eighth Century. Coptic Art - Exhibition of Coptic Art by the Olsen Foundation, Guilford, Connecticut, November-December 1955, no. 122, illus.Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, 1981, p. 30, illus.
Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities
Sale date : 09 Dec 2004 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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