Apulia

Called Pulia by Italians, Apulia is Italy’s most eastern region, a long peninsula, bordered by the Ionian and Adriatic seas. Always a strategic area in the Mediterranean it was colonized in its earliest days by the Greeks and then the Romans until the end of the Roman Empire 476 CE. Greek tribal people from the eastern Adriatic who arrived Italy in the late Bronze Age (11th-10th centuries BCE) produced hand formed and painted pottery with red, brown and black earth colors in a variety of geometric shapes from about 700 BCE to late 4th century BCE.

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    Ancient Daunian Earthenware Cup, Magna Graecia, Italy (1789LME) $595

    Original price was: $595.00.Current price is: $505.75.
    H: 3”  W: 4.75”  D: 4” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This Daunian style earthenware cup was produced in the ancient northern Italian region Apulia, then known as Magna Graecia, from the 6th or 5th centuries B.C.E.. It was covered with beige slip and painted with red, brown and black earth colors in a variety of geometric patterns. Its curved rim and high handle was ideal for pouring liquids like water and wine.  The handle may have been repaired as there is an uneven slip underneath it or may have been attached it was painted but it is otherwise in very good condition.

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    Ancient Lekanis Dish, Magna Graecia (3247BHK) $575

    Original price was: $595.00.Current price is: $505.75.
    H: 3.625”  Dia: 3.5″ | FREE SHIPPING within contiNental U.S.!

    This diminutive but very elegant piece is a lekanis, a lid-covered container for cosmetics.  Originating in Greece embraced by artisans from Apulia in Magna Graecia in Southern Italy who adapted this form in their Xenon wares in the 6th century B.C.E. This terracotta lidded bowl is covered with pale matte salmon decorations over a black glazed body highlighted with decorative meandering bands. Fathers in ancient times filled these bowls with small items of adornment and gave them to their daughters as a wedding gift, which would be a delightful tradition to uphold today.

     

    container for cosmetics in the 6th century BCE.and a matte pale orange-red or salmon decoration over a black glazed terracotta body fired from red clay. It was used as a special gift for a bride from fathers with small adornment items placed inside.

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