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My third beak-spouted vessel arrived today and I am very pleased.  Western or NW Iran c. 1000 BC 25.4 cm (w) x 17 cm (h) (10" x 6.7") Description: Beak-spouted vessel with carinated body, opposing small ring handle, decorated with pinched bands and incised lines, small losses to rim and spout. Ex-Carlisle, England Collection formed 1960s - 1980s |
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That is wicked nice Bob. What a great addition to your collection!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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What a cool vase! Do you handle these Bob? I would be so scared I'd drop one! I have dropped coins before, and my heart drops when the coin does!
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Thanks, Dave and Chris. Chris, I only handle pieces when photographing or repositioning items in the display cases. It does get pretty nerve-racking.
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Wow, 3,000 years old it's in fantastic condition. Congrats on the new addition to your collection.
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These can't have been the easiest pottery items to produce, and for this one to survive for three millennia relatively unscathed is amazing. Congrats, Bob. A worthy addition to the collection.  |
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Sweet simple decoration with nice natural colouring and my favourite type of pouring design...Lovely addition Bob.
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New pickup with interesting provenance.  Amphora Cyprus, Early Iron Age, 1050 - 650 BC 14.3 cm x 11.8 cm (5.6" X 4.65") Description: Painted in bichrome linear bands, small hole on one side of body. Ex-Anthony Thwaite Collection. Thwaite (1930 - 2021) was a UK poet, literary editor, BBC producer, reviewer, lecturer, antiquarian, and an amateur archaeologist: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ite-obituaryEdited by Kamnaskires
03/10/2023 10:59 pm
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Nice jar with provenance. There's increasing pressure from some governments to control/stop imports of antiquities and ancient coins to the US, including Cyprus. They call it Cultural Heritage even though for many years it was legal to sell/trade this stuff until recent decades. I read a post last week on another forum the owner of Roma Numismatics was arrested for supposedly selling things with invalid provenance. I have a few ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian jars, oil lamps, Ushabti, amulets, etc. had them for years, hope the political climate doesn't get so bad I won't be able to sell them someday without worrying they'd be confiscated. I have kept all the sales receipts of everything I've bought since the mid 1980s, including my ancient coins, modern coins, bullion. Hopefully that would help. Most of the legal battles for ownership and repatriation are with expensive museum pieces, not small private collections. But I've seen some news stories of ancient coins being seized at customs boarders here and in Europe. Ancient Coin Collectors Guild is a good place to keep up to date and to help the hobby. https://accguild.org/Edited by livingwater
03/10/2023 4:11 pm
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Thanks for the comment. Yes, it's increasingly challenging to navigate the cultural heritage legal landscape. When possible, I seek provenanced material from old collections - but, of course, that's no guarantee that there's no violation of an MOU. VCoins recently stopped listing antiquities, as you may know. CNG quickly followed suit.
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A very nice piece Bob. Perhaps impossible to know for sure, but does the lack of a pouring spout mean that this was likely meant to hold a solid rather than a liquid? I'm interested in your insight or speculation. Thx!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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I would think liquid, Dave. These days someone would have to keep a finger stuck in the hole seen in the left image.
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