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Place of Origin: Balkan
Ancient Cypriot Bichrome Ware Amphora – Black-on-Red Pottery ca. 800–600 BC
Located in London, GB
Ancient Cypriot Bichrome Ware Amphora – Black-on-Red Pottery, Cypro-Archaic, ca. 800–600 BC
A beautifully preserved ancient Cypriot bichrome ware amphora dating to the Cypro-Archaic...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Antiquities Ancient world Cypriot pottery bowl Middle East Antiques
Located in London, GB
A ancient Greek Cypriot pottery bowl
Buff pottery of globular form with pointed small base with painted bands of colour
Early Iron age C 1000 500 BC...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Ancient Greek Red-Figure Terracotta Pelike (Jar), 5th–4th Century BCE
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exquisite ancient Greek red-figure terracotta pelike (storage jar) standing 10.5 inches tall. This piece embodies the timeless artistry of Classical Greece, featuring h...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
AR Tetradrachm Thrace, Lampsakos, Lysimachos 305-281 BC
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: diademed head of the deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon
Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΛYΣIMAXOY, Athena Nikephoros seated left, arm resting on shield, monogram to inner left
...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Tetradrachm Macedonia, Side, Alexander the Great, 325-320 BC
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Herakles right wearing lion skin headdress
Reverse: enthroned Zeus left, eagle on outstretched right hand, scepter in left hand
FINE STYLE
Late lifetime or early...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Corinthian Helmet
Located in London, GB
A bronze helmet made of a single hammered bronze plate in the characteristic shape of the military Corinthian type helmets of the end of the 7th century and the beginning of the 6th ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greco Roman Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
AR Tetradrachm Attica, Athens, 440-420 BC
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and spiral palmette
Reverse: owl standing right with h...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Greek Warriors Black with 24k Gold Porcelain Decorative Wall Plate, 1970s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage black porcelain decorative wall plate with 24k gold hand painted Greek warriors on horse chariot 1970's.
Hand made in Greece decorative black and gold wall plate depicting Greek Mythology.
Porcelain black glazed with 24k. gilt gold, backside indicates, "hand-made in Greece, and below that 24k Gold, and next to this is a Greek Key boxed...
Category
Late 20th Century Greco Roman Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Karos Hand Painted Carnations and Tulips Decorative Plate Rhodes Greece
By Iznik Pottery
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A decorative I Karos pottery, I Caro collector polychrome hand painted and handcrafted in Rhodes, Greece ceramic wall decorative plate with an antelope, carnations and tulip polychrome design.
The plate is decorated with a white, blue, aqua, green, and sienna red design and gilded with 24-karat gold.
These are intricately, hand painted plates made in Rhodes, Greece by the famous I Caro pottery.
Rhodes is famous for its kiln products, such as tiles and pottery, which are glazed and multicolored.
It has a beautifully hand painted carnation and tulip in burgundy, light and dark blue and turquoise foliage.
An Islamic ceramic plate in the Iznik style, painted in vivid colors with decoration of tulips and carnations.
The back of the plate is signed and numbered, it has a string to the back for hanging. It is marked
“handmade in Rhodes Greece by Ikaros Pottery...
Category
Mid-20th Century Medieval Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
AR Stater Lucania, Metapontum
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: ΜΕΤ, corn ear with eight grains
Reverse: corn ear with eight grains, all incuse
Weight: 7.77 g
Grade: Good very fine
Mint: Metapontum
Reference: HN Italy 1459; HGC 1, 1027
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Painting portrait Sad Clown, oil, hardboard, Oto Dobovišek, Yugoslavia 1989s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
This oil painting, titled "Sad Clown," is a remarkable piece of Naive art created by Oto Dobovišek in Yugoslavia during the 1980s. This folk art portrait beautifully captures the poi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Antique Wabi Sabi Wooden Bowl, Bulgaria c. late 1800s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
A wonderfil antique wabi sabi wooden bowl with beautiful patina from age and use.
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Wabi Sabi Wooden Root Bowl, Bulgaria c. late 1800s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
A wonderfil antique wabi sabi wooden root bowl with beautiful patina from age and use.
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Mid Century Wooden Lacquer Pull Toy Caterpillar Banana Slug and Colorful Balls
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful unique caterpillar toy solid lacquer painted wood in colorful colors, circa 1950;s Made in Greece by Kouvalias.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Antique Greek Pair of Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Greek Pair Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 0'11" L x 0'6" W
Origin: Greece
Period: 18th Cen...
Category
18th Century Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Greek gold pendant with siren figurine, Hellenistic
Located in UTRECHT, UT
A gold pendant in the shape of a siren with a human head, hair parted and falling onto back, human upper body, wings on back, standing on drum-shaped pedestal, decorated with granule...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Gold
AR Drachm Bagadat, kingdom of Persis, Persepolis
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head right, with mustache and earring, wearing diadem and kyrbasia
Reverse: fire temple of Ahura-Mazda, above, half-figure of Ahura-Mazda, to inner left, Baydād (Bagadat) st...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Lucania, Metapontum
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Demeter left, wearing barley wreath
Reverse: ΜΕΤA, ear of barley, pitchfork above leaf in left field
Weight: 7.84 g
Grade: About extremely fine
Reference: SNG ANS 4...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR drachm Mithradates I, Hekatompylos
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head left in bashlyk
Reverse: archer seated right on omphalos, three line legend, H
Not known to Sellwood, unpublished coin of Hekatompylos mint
Weight: 3.95 g
Grade: Abou...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Antique Wabi Sabi Jar, 17.72 in Tall, East-Europe c. early 1900s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
A wonderful antique wabi sabi jar with beautiful patina from age and use.
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
A Rare and Finely Detailed Greek Bronze Statuette of an Actor with Large Phallus
Located in London, GB
A Rare and Finely Detailed Greek Bronze Statuette of an Actor with Large Phallus
Bronze
Greek
First half of 4th Century BC
Size: 10.5cm high - 4¼ ins high
Provenance:
Ex Privat...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Greek Brass Hanukkah Lamp Menorah
Located in New York, NY
Brass Hanukkah Lamp, Salonika, Greece, 19th century.
Openwork backplate with scrolled branches; three stylized flowers support central triangular c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Folk Art Pottery Charger, Hand Painted Sheep, Signed, Greece, Circa 1970's
Located in Chatham, ON
M. MIXA?HE - Vintage folk art pottery charger or wall plate - large size - hand made and hand painted and incised with a sheep and flowers - applied slip decorative scrolls to the ba...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Diptych paintings in the style of Naive art, Oto Dobovišek, Yugoslavia 1970s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Immerse yourself in the charming and whimsical world of rural life with this captivating set of two diptych paintings of style Naive Art by Oto Dobovišek, an artist from Yugoslavia i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Post Social Folk Art Student Work from West Balkan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Post social student work. Farm house full of hand made animals and all is hand made.
Category
1960s Folk Art Vintage Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Plaster, Plywood
Large Greek Style Repousse Oval Metal Plaque
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a large Greek style repousse oval metal plaque depicting a scene of a Spartan warrior trying to defend himself against two nudes warriors from another tribe. There are two shields standing at each side of them. There are also a Spartan helmet...
Category
20th Century Greek Revival Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Pair of Antique Folk Art Hand-Carved Wooden Circular Wall Plaques
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of antique folk art carved wall plaques are unsigned, but believed to have originated from Greece in approximately 1920. These circular wall plaques are done with a softwoo...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Softwood
Mid-Century Oil on Canvas by Dordevic Miodrag, Serbia, 1970s
By Dordevic Miodrag
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-century oil on canvas by Dordevic Miodrag - Serbia 1970s.
Category
1970s Vintage Balkan Folk Art
Materials
Paint
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Ancient Greek Terracotta Antefix in Form of the Head of Artemis Bendis, Taranto
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Located in Vienna, AT
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Northern Plains Porcupine Hair Roach
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Greek orthodox icon (1800) painted on wooden pannel
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Greek orthodox icon (painted around the year 1800).
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