Three Latest Pottery Pickups

Thanks, Jim. I intend to take new photos of the display in a couple months, after a few more purchases. I've got the cabinets set up in the same small room that serves as my art studio. It's tight, but I have no choice since space in the new house is limited.

Another Greek lamp arrived today.



350-301 BC
99 mm (l) x 66 mm (w) x 40.6 mm (h)
(3.9" x 2.6" x 1.6")

Description:
Howland type 25B
Wheel-made with a globular body, long nozzle, concave discus, and a large lug on the left. Reassembled from fragments. There is an almost identical lamp, perhaps from the same Athens workshop, in the collection of the British Museum:

Excellent!

Thanks, gents.

Jim, below is a cut-and-paste of one of Dave's earlier posts to this thread. I think it may answer your questions. And, FYI, that little hole you see on the top of the lug handle exits on the underside of the lug (there is a corresponding hole on the underside), although the interior part is clogged. So, it was likely for hanging the lamp.




BTW, with shipping I paid $40 total. I found it in an auction that didn't feature antiquities, and so it wasn't on collectors' radars, apparently. Given the mostly intact black glaze, it is a good deal, imo, despite the flaws.

New arrival today - one with interesting provenance.



Greek
5th century BC
99 mm (l) x 65 mm (w)
(3.9" X 2.5")

Description:
Black glaze, long nozzle, round open body, and a central conical tube so that the lamp could be raised on a pole or rod when lit; indistinct old inscription on the foot.

Ex-Chevallier-Verel Collection (Paris, France) through 1969, thence passed through three generations of the same Parisian family by inheritance.

The following excerpt is from: https://www.ancientcyprus.com/colle...l-collection

"Victor Emile Gabriel Chevallier (born 07/11/1889 in Frontenaud, died 09/05/1969 in Sèvres) married Marguerite Jeanne Verel (born 05/12/1887 in Paris, died 04/03/1962 in Saulieu) on 12/27/1928 in Paris. Their residence was located on rue Jacob in Paris.
Mr. Chevallier served as an associate professor at the Lycee Montaigne in Paris, dedicating 44 years to civil and military service. He was honored as a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur on March 21, 1955. Madame Verel worked as a lecturer at the Louvre Museum. Together, they amassed a collection of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, antique paintings, furniture and objets d'art, as well as Far Eastern and Asian art.The collection features predominantly ceramics from various regions and periods: Mesopotamia, including a unique tablet; Egypt from the Nagada period (3900 to 3500 BC) through the Ptolemaic era; Greece; Corinth (Mycenaean period); Etruria from the 7th century BC; Cyprus (11th century BC); and Classical Greece."

I really like this one Bob and congratulations on having such great provenance. Looks like this collection was well documented by Chevallier and Verel:

https://www.ancientcyprus.com/colle...l-collection

I don't think that I see their inventory number on the bottom, but rather it looks like a name or location perhaps.

I suspect that the lettering reads "che&ver", with an E-shaped ampersand sign. I also don't see a number.