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Lot 1281
A two-tier mahogany wine table on turned column and tripod base; together with a similar smaller (2).Condition ReportTwo tier table - height 84cms, diameter 46cms and 35cms; small table height 52cms and diameter 30cms. Both have general wear commensurate with age, no major issues, good overall condition.
Lot 106
Workshop of GUIDO RENI (Calvenzano di Vergato, Bologna, 1575 - Bologna, 1642)."Bacchus child".Oil on canvas.Measurements: 73,5 x cm; 87 x 76 cm (frame).The master painted a work of "Bacchus child drinking" around 1600 which is in the State Art Collections of Dresden, Galerie Alter Meister, in Germany. It is believed that Reni's own pupils copied this painting, attributing the work in question to the artist's own workshop.The painting in question can be attributed to the workshop of Guido Reni. It has an elegant compositional balance, chromatic and luminous sensitivity, dictated by Reni's models, suggesting the attribution to an artist among the pupils or followers of the master who passed through his house-workshop in via Pescherie. Many were, in fact, the young painters who aspired to be considered his pupils, actively participating in the life of his various "rooms" or coming sporadically to draw inspiration from his work in progress.Against a landscape background is the figure of a child, crowned with vines and bunches of grapes, leaning on a small vat from which wine is flowing. The representation of this god is raising with his left arm a globular bottle, the type of onion while drinking.The undisputed master of Roman-Bolognese classicism along with Albani and Domenichino, Guido Reni was undoubtedly the best of the three. Closely linked to the Carracci family and to the city of Bologna, they all had a similar trajectory. They trained in Bologna with Denys Calvaert, and then moved on to the Accademia degli Incamminati, directed by Ludovico Carraci. In 1600 Reni arrived in Rome, where he worked with Annibale Carracci in the Farnese Gallery. His best period begins in these years; in 1609, at Annibale's death, Reni remains as the head of the classicist school. In the city he will be protected by Scipione Borghese, the future Pope Paul V, for whom the painter will realize one of his most important works, "La Aurora" (Palazzo Rospigliosi). It shows something that will always be characteristic of Reni's style, his admiration for ancient sculpture. Starting from the classical statues, he develops an ideal of beauty and perfection that will be much admired by the following painters. In 1614 he returned to Bologna for good. Reni's style evolves in a clear direction, more and more sculptural and cold, more and more fully classicist. His mature work will be characterized by a cold palette, with silvery reflections. Finally, from the 1930s onwards, his style became sketchy, with an unfinished appearance and a tendency towards monochrome, of great interest from a technical as well as a formal point of view.Guido Reni is currently represented in the most important art galleries around the world, including the Prado Museum, the Hermitage, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Gallery in London, among many others.
Lot 197
Skyphos. Gnathia, Greece, 4th century BC. Ceramics. Restored. Measures: 13 x 18,5 x 12,5 cm. Skyphos made in the workshops of Gnathia, decorated with the black glaze technique, combined with synthesized geometric and vegetal motifs brushed in red and white colors, organized in concentric bands, following a typical style of Gnathian pottery. The skyphos is a deep wine cup, with two handles and a low, wide base, or without a base. The handles may be small and horizontal, projecting from the rim (in Corinthian and Athenian forms), or they may be loop-shaped, placed on the rim or protruding from the base.
Lot 69
Seated figure with hat. Tanagra. Boeotia, V-IV century BC.Terracotta.Measurements: 11 cm.Tanagra, also called Tanagraois, was a city of Boeotia, near the border with Attica, in a territory called Pemandride, which produced the best wine of Boeotia. Perched high up, with its temples separated from the houses, it had an important necropolis. Of particular note are some human figures made in terracotta and called "tanagrines", fashionable in the ancient Greek world from the late fourth century BC to the late third century BC, found mainly in Hellenistic tombs, but also in the temples, and found in large quantities from the last third of the nineteenth century approximately. They were part of the trousseaus, and generally belonged to the Attic school of sculpture, with a strong influence of the school of Praxiteles (as seen in the present case by the curve that forms the figure at the hips, "invention" of this sculptor and therefore known as "Praxitelian curve"), with faces of sweet expression and a certain languid air, and probably made in Athenian workshops in many cases. Similar discoveries have been made in Myrina (present-day Turkey), Cyrene (Italy) and Alexandria (Egypt).
Lot 108
Skyphos. Gnathia century, IV BC.Black glazed ceramic.Measurements: 8 x 9,5 cm.Skyphos made in the workshops of Gnathia, decorated with the black glaze technique, combined with synthesized geometric and vegetal motifs brushed in red and white colors, organized in concentric bands, following a typical style of Gnathian pottery. The skyphos is a deep wine cup, with two handles and a low, wide base, or without a base. The handles may be small and horizontal, projecting from the rim (in Corinthian and Athenian forms), or they may be loop-shaped, set on the rim or protruding from the base. The black glaze technique employs the same glaze used on the red and black-figure ceramics, but covering the piece completely, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw glaze, which adopted its characteristic black tone, intense and shiny, once fired.Gnathia vases are a type of pottery belonging to ancient Apulian painting from the 4th century B.C. They owe their name to the ancient city of Gnathia (now Egnazia) in eastern Apulia. There, the first examples of the style were discovered in the mid-19th century. Its production began in Apulia around 370/360 BC, paralleling the local version of the red-figure style that developed trends toward polychromy at that time. Gnathia vases are characterized by the application of different paints directly on the body of the vase. The subjects depicted include erotes, images of women's lives, theatrical scenes and Dionysian motifs. Painting was often limited to the upper half of the vase body, while the lower half often had only ornamental decoration. The most common forms were bells, pelicans, oinochoai and skyphos.
Lot 67
Etruscan Skyphos of the 4th century BC.Black buccaneer ceramic.Measurements: 8 x 13 cm.The bucchero is a type of black pottery specific to the Etruscan civilization. Known since the 7th century B.C. Its firing method (in kilns between 900 °C and 1050 °C) turns the pottery black and makes it shine like metal.The skyphos is a deep wine cup, with two handles and a low, wide base, or without a base. The handles may be small and horizontal, projecting from the rim (in Corinthian and Athenian forms), or they may be loop-shaped, set on the rim or protruding from the base.
Lot 32
Set of four domestic utensils; Rome, 2nd-3rd century A.D.CeramicsJug, cup, guttus and plate.It presents faults in the guttus.The plate has restoration in fracture lines.Measurements: 11 x 18.8 cm (jug); 6 x 13 x 9.5 cm (cup); 14.5 x 3.5 cm (plate); 9 x 7.5 cm (guttus).Lot composed of four ceramic objects designed for domestic use. Ceramics became one of the most popular materials in ancient Rome. It is true that it is a material that was already used before, however, it was the Roman culture that developed numerous typologies, which were used for specific uses, such as storing wine, grain or in the case of the guttus, to pour oil during meals. The versatility of ceramics favored the exchange of resources in a society with numerous provinces.
Lot 35
Kylix; Attica, 6th century BC. Black glazed ceramic. Measures: 7 x 25 cm. The piece presented here is a kylix, a Greek ceramic type of wine drinking vessel, characterized by a relatively shallow and wide body that stands on a foot, with two symmetrically arranged handles. It was mainly used in symposiums, since its shape allowed drinking while reclining, as was done at banquets. It is decorated with the black varnish technique, the same used in the technique of the red and black figures, but covering the piece completely, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw varnish, which adopted its characteristic black tone, intense and shiny, once fired.
Lot 11
Etruscan Kyathos. 6th-5th century BC. Black buccaneer ceramic. Measures: 15,5 x 18,5 x 13,5 cm. This type of vessels used to have a funerary use, although they also belonged to the wine services. The bucchero is a type of black pottery specific to the Etruscan civilization. Known since the 7th century B.C. Its firing method (in kilns between 900 °C and 1050 °C) turns the pottery black and makes it shine like metal. The Etruscan culture was already surrounded by an aura of mystery in antiquity; even their Greek contemporaries were intrigued by the sudden emergence of this people as a maritime and commercial power, by this ancient people who, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, "resemble no other in their language and customs". While there are those who consider them as the people that gave rise to the Roman Empire, there are other experts who give more relevance to the differences that exist between the two peoples and consider them mere neighbors or "conqueror and conquered", depending on the time in which one speaks, recognizing a strong influence of some elements of Etruscan culture and art observed on the Romans.
Lot 98
Great Crater of Columns; Greece, Attic, 5th century BC. Ceramics. Attached thermoluminescence certificate from QED Laboratoire. Measures: 51 x 45 cm. Large columned krater, attributed to the Painter of Florence (c. 465-440 B.C.) that appears decorated with scenes on each of its faces. The obverse, with a symposium scene showing three reclining men receiving the attentions of a young servant carrying an oinochoe for pouring wine and a maid playing the aulos (double flute). The figure of the central bearded man is also shown playing a chelys (Greek 8-stringed instrument). In the lower part, tables with kylix for drinking wine on them can be seen. The scene on the reverse shows three men in cloaks having a conversation. Two carry walking sticks on which they lean and between two of them is a strigilum that appears to be hanging on the wall. The scenes are framed by double vertical bands decorated with dots. The embouchure presents the same type of decoration but with horizontal bands. The neck of the obverse presents a wide band decorated with ovals arranged vertically and vertical black bands that narrow at the bottom. The piece presents restorations on fracture lines and some areas reconstructed with repainting, normal in this type of large pieces. Both the piece and the drawings are in a very good state of preservation. The Symposium was an event common to all ancient Greeks, who loved the joy of banquets on the occasion of family feasts, city festivals or any other event worthy of celebration: various successes, especially in the competitions of poets or athletes, the arrival or departure of a friend, etc.. The banquets (symposia) even gave rise to a literary genre, as evidenced, among others, by Plato's Banquet and Xenophon's Banquet, and much later Plutarch's Table Talks (Symposiac). The word symposium (Ancient Greek ?????????, sympósion), which we translate as banquet, properly means "gathering of drinkers". The crater was a type of Greek pottery intended to contain a mixture of water and wine, with which the cups were filled. It was moved to the place of the meal and placed on a dais or sometimes on the floor and the cupbearer administered the liquid with a spoon or kyathos, filling the cups of the diners.
Lot 22
Etruscan Oinochoe, 3rd century BC. Black ceramic. Measures: 16 x 12,5 x 11,5 cm. The oinochoe is a vessel used to remove the wine from the crater, where it has been watered, before serving it. It is characterized by having a single handle, and is classified according to the shape of the mouth and the belly. In this case it is decorated with the black varnish technique, the same used in the technique of the red and black figures, but covering the piece completely, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw varnish, which adopted its characteristic black tone, intense and shiny, once fired.
Lot 38
Roman amphora, 2nd century AD. Terracotta. With iron support. Measures: 85 cm (height) x 30 cm (diameter). The amphora is a type originating from Greek pottery, widely used in the Roman Empire, characterized by being a tall fusiform-shaped vessel, with a narrow neck and two openwork handles on the sides of it, usually ending in a point to place it sunk in the sandy soil or on an upright. It was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as the main means of transporting and storing grapes, olives, olive oil, cereals, fish, wine and other commodities. However, during the Roman period it was also frequently used for funerary purposes, as a container for the ashes of the deceased. The average volume of an amphora was about 25-30 liters (one cubic foot); its weight and content, in an amphora filled with water, gave rise to the talent, as a measure of weight and also a monetary unit. The first Greek types had a continuous curved profile, while the more modern and Roman examples have a clearly differentiated upper part (neck and mouth) from the rest of the body. Some of these pieces, such as the famous Panathenaic Amphorae, had pictorial decorations, especially those of Greek origin. However, during the Roman Empire, due to the expansion of trade, their use was focused on the transport and storage of food, so they were usually simple, with no decoration other than modeling.
Lot 87
Etruscan Skyphos; 3rd century B.C. Black buccaneer ceramic. Measures: 14 x 24,5 x 16 cm. The bucchero is a type of black pottery specific to the Etruscan civilization. Known since the 7th century B.C. Its firing method (in kilns between 900 °C and 1050 °C) turns the pottery black and makes it shine like metal. The skyphos is a deep wine cup, with two handles and a low, wide base, or without a base. The handles may be small and horizontal, projecting from the rim (in Corinthian and Athenian forms), or they may be loop-shaped, set on the rim or protruding from the base.
Lot 89
Etruscan Oinochoe, 6th century BC. Black glazed ceramic or bucchero. Measures: 24 x 15 x 14 cm. The oinochoe is a wine jug used to remove the wine from a crater -where it has been watered- before serving it. It fulfills a similar function to the olpe and is characterized by a single handle and a size of 20 to 40 cm. The heyday of the oinochoe is in the geometric period and it becomes rarer during the black figures. It is a type of pottery from Ancient Greece. It is characterized by having a single handle, and is classified according to the shape of the mouth and belly. In this case it is decorated with the black glaze technique, the same used in the technique of the red and black figures, but covering the piece completely, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw varnish, which adopted its characteristic black tone, intense and shiny, once fired.
Lot 8
Roman amphora type Dressel 8, 1st-2nd century AD. Terracotta. Measures: 98 (height) x 30 cm (diameter). Roman amphora made of terracotta, Dressel 8 type, used for transporting salted food. It is a specimen with a well-proportioned elongated body, a pointed base for sticking the vessel into the ground, a very long and wide cylindrical neck, with a molded mouth and two vertical handles. The amphora is a type originating from Greek pottery, widely used in the Roman Empire, characterized by being a tall fusiform-shaped vessel, with a narrow neck and two openwork handles on the sides of the neck, usually ending in a point to place it sunk in the sandy soil or on an upright. It was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as the main means of transporting and storing grapes, olives, olive oil, cereals, fish, wine and other commodities. However, during the Roman period it was also frequently used for funerary purposes, as a container for the ashes of the deceased. The average volume of an amphora was about 25-30 liters (one cubic foot); its weight and content, in an amphora filled with water, gave rise to the talent, as a measure of weight and also a monetary unit. The first Greek types had a continuous curved profile, while the more modern and Roman examples have a clearly differentiated upper part (neck and mouth) from the rest of the body. Some of these pieces, such as the famous Panathenaic Amphorae, had pictorial decorations, especially those of Greek origin. However, during the Roman Empire, due to the expansion of trade, their use was focused on the transport and storage of food, so they were usually simple, with no decoration other than modeling.
Lot 17
Etruscan Enocoe, 6th century BC. Black buccaneer pottery. Measures: 15,5 x 22 x 22 cm. Etruscan Enocoe realized in a type of black pottery, the bucchero, specific of the Etruscan civilization. Known since the VII century B.C., its firing method (in kilns between 900 °C and 1050 °C) turns the pottery black and makes it shine like metal. The body of the enocoe we present here is worked in the form of a rounded shape that, as a whole, simulates the shape of a venera. It has a wide and smooth mouth. The enocoe or oinochoe is a type of Greek pottery used to remove the wine from the crater, where it has been watered, before serving it. It is characterized by having a single handle, in this case with zoomorphic endings, and is classified according to the shape of the mouth and belly.
Lot 39
Roman amphora, 2nd century AD. Terracotta. With iron support. Measures: 108 x 26 cm (diameter). The amphora is a type originating from Greek pottery, widely used in the Roman Empire, characterized by being a tall fusiform-shaped vessel, with a narrow neck and two openwork handles on the sides of it, usually ending in a point to place it sunk in the sandy soil or on an upright. It was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as the main means of transporting and storing grapes, olives, olive oil, cereals, fish, wine and other commodities. However, during the Roman period it was also frequently used for funerary purposes, as a container for the ashes of the deceased. The average volume of an amphora was about 25-30 liters (one cubic foot); its weight and content, in an amphora filled with water, gave rise to the talent, as a measure of weight and also a monetary unit. The first Greek types had a continuous curved profile, while the more modern and Roman examples have a clearly differentiated upper part (neck and mouth) from the rest of the body. Some of these pieces, such as the famous Panathenaic Amphorae, had pictorial decorations, especially those of Greek origin. However, during the Roman Empire, due to the expansion of trade, their use was focused on the transport and storage of food, so they were usually simple, with no decoration other than modeling.
Lot 5
Kylix of Magna Graecia, 4th century BC. Ceramics. Provenance: Private collection A. Alonso, Salamanca. Formed between 1960 and 1980. Purchased at Bonhams London. Attached thermoluminescence certificate. Restored from original fragments and line capping. Measures: 28.5 cm long between handles and 8 cm high. The piece presented here is a kylix, a Greek ceramic type of wine drinking vessel, characterized by a relatively shallow and wide body standing on a foot, with two symmetrically arranged handles. It was mainly used in symposiums, since its shape allowed drinking while reclining, as was done at banquets. It is decorated with the black varnish technique, the same used in the technique of the red and black figures, but covering the piece completely, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw varnish, which adopted its characteristic black tone, intense and shiny, once fired. Its background is decorated with a female figure of prominent forms, holding a cane in one of her hands and what appears to be a potion in the other hand. It is contained in a perfectly delimited fretwork.
Lot 42
Etruscan Oinochoe, 6th century BC. Black glazed ceramic or bucchero. Measures: 10 x 7,5 x 7,5 cm. The oinochoe is a wine jug used to remove the wine from a crater -where it has been watered- before serving it. It fulfills a similar function to the olpe and is characterized by a single handle and a size of 20 to 40 cm. The heyday of the oinochoe is in the geometric period and it becomes rarer during the black figures. It is a type of pottery from Ancient Greece. It is characterized by having a single handle, and is classified according to the shape of the mouth and belly. In this case it is decorated with the black glaze technique, the same used in the technique of the red and black figures, but covering the piece completely, without figurative decoration. It was a transparent raw varnish, which adopted its characteristic black tone, intense and shiny, once fired.
Lot 9
Etruscan Kylix, 6th-5th century BC. Terracotta. Measures: 4 x 20 x 14,5 cm. The piece presented here is a kylix, a Greek ceramic type of wine drinking vessel, characterized by a relatively shallow and wide body that stands on a foot, with two symmetrically arranged handles. It was mainly used in symposiums, since its shape allowed drinking while reclining, as was done at banquets. It is decorated with reddish bands arranged horizontally, without figurative decoration.
Lot 1536
Collection of Vintage Wine ( 6 ) Bottles In Total. Comprises 1/ Leasingham Clare Valley 2002 Riesling, 75cl, 12.5 % Vol. 2/ Montana Reserve 2001 Marlborough Barrique Fermented Chardonnay, 75 cl, 14 % Vol. 3/ Mount Langi Ghiran Billi Billi Shiraz 2002 x ( 2 ) Bottles, 750 ml, 14 % Vol. 4/ Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet, 13.5 % Vol, 750 ml. 5/ Black Tower Fruity Wine ' 2016 ' 75cl, 9.5 % Vol. All Unopened / Sealed Condition.
Lot 1537
Collection of Vintage Wine ( 6 ) Bottles In Total. Comprises 1/ Alsace Riesling 2015 Roesslin White Wine, 12.5 % Vol, 75cl /750ml. 2/ The Ned 2015 Pinot Grigio, 13.5 % Vol, 750 ml. 3/ Penfolds Rawsons Retreat Riesling Vintage 2001, 12.5 % Vol, 750 ml. 4/ Mitchelton Blackwood Park Riesling 1999. 75cl - 13 % Vol ( 2 Bottles ) 6/ Terre Siciliane 2017, 12 % Vol, 75 cl. All Seals Unopened.
Lot 780A
Large Quantity of Quality Glass Items, comprising six assorted crystal glass fruit/trifle bowls, and oval fruit bowl, four footed sweet bowls, a crystal basket, glass cake plate, hors d'oeuvres dish, vases, glasses etc., together with six vintage wine glasses in assorted colours. All in good condition.
Lot 786
Commemorative Glass Rummer, etched to the bowl with a sailing ship named WARREN HASTINGS 1805, a ship of the East India Company, captured by the French in 1805, recaptured by the British in 1808 and returned to the EIC; the rummer with an air twist stem, 7 inches (17.5cms) high, together with a trumpet shaped wine glass with an air twist stem, 6.5 inches (16.25cms) high (2)
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