Slip

A slip (also surrey or slipware) is liquefied clay or particles of clay suspended in water used to cover a clay body or to bond sections of a clay piece together (i.e. like gluing a cup handle) called a joining slip. Slips may also be used to decorate, color or protect parts of the clay body. For instance, mixing the clay with the same color of the clay body does not change its color, but mixing the clay with metal oxides produce a color slip in black, white, crème, red, and more depending on the metal oxide used. Covering the clay body with a slip also lessens the permeability (leakage) of a porous clay body. There are many other ways to use a slip for decorative purposes that depend on its thickness.

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    Ancient Terracotta Oenochoe (Wine Jug), Roman North Africa #3197A

    Original price was: $275.00.Current price is: $225.00.
    H: 4.5”  W: 3”  D: 2.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S. !

    Small wine jugs were made in the Roman North Africa territory called Africa Proconsulares and exported throughout the empire. Made and decorated with ribbing and a single handle on a potters wheel it was fired in a kiln.  Simple and unadorned functional objects called coarse wears were made everyday use and to make offerings to deities using inexpensive long-lasting materials.  Very good example of pouring vessels from ancient history throughout the Roman Empire.

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

    $595.00
    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 Earthenware Carinated Flagon, Roman North Africa #3191BLB

    Original price was: $775.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    H: 4.5”  W: 3”  D: 2.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This Roman ceramic flagon is a uniquely shaped vessel used to store and pour potable liquids. A crème slip carinated jug with a high profile and a trefoil pouring spout, it has a strap handle attached from the carinated edge to just below the rim for easy handling. Roman coarse wars like this were use for liquids and to make offerings to household deities.

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  • Ancient Ribbed Oinochoe Wine Jug, Roman North Africa (3197B-EKB) SPECIAL PRICE

    $295.00
    Ht: 6.25”  W: 3.25”  D: 2.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S. !

    Made in Africa Proconsularis in Roman North Africa and shipped throughout the Roman Empire, this small pouring vessel was made of inexpensive and long-lasting materials and was called coarse wear for everyday use.  This earthenware jug is elegant in its simplicity – tapered  and undecorated except for horizontal ridges, curved single handle, simple rim at the mouth and crème clay slip. It was made using a potters wheel, seen by the circle marks on the bottom and the uniform ribbing. A fine small piece of history.

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    Ancient Terracotta Beaker, Roman North Africa #3195B

    Original price was: $325.00.Current price is: $235.00.
    H: 2.675”  DIA: 3” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This simple ancient small earthenware bowl was made in Africa Proconsularis, the Roman North Africa pottery center and distributed throughout the Roman Empire. With no handle, this beaker is beautiful in its simplicity resting on a short foot, a body that curves up and rises to meet a neck and is topped with an everted rim to lessen spillage  Made for daily use, this Roman coarse wear has a wide mouth for easy drinking and a rim with light terracotta red and its crème slip with an exquisite shape.

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    Ancient Terracotta Carinated Flagon with Handle, Roman North Africa #3190

    Original price was: $625.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    H: 8.5” Dia: 9.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    Made in the Roman North Africa, this ancient carinated ceramic flagon called coarse wear for daily use made of inexpensive durable clay was used to hydrate all kinds of people and on home altars for offerings to family deities. Carinated pottery, where the top and lower sections are angled in opposite directions forming a pointed edge, was common ancient pottery shape, this one with a handle.

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    Ancient Terracotta Platter with Stamped Designs, Roman North Africa #3186

    Original price was: $465.00.Current price is: $365.00.
    H: 1.625” Dia: 10.125” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    A fine ancient Roman platter produced for upper classes, this is refined and delicate and has stamped decorative images in complex circles.  Although rough areas with small losses remain, it is an ancient piece otherwise in very good condition that, especially considering its age and use, remains a remarkable surviving piece of history.

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  • SOLD Ancient Catacomb Terracotta Oil Lamp, Roman Empire (1885A-WAR)

    $155.00

    Although most famous for Christian burials, people of all religions were interred in the catacombs due to a shortage of land and demand for burial space after a switch from cremations to underground burials in the 2nd century A.D. Roman made closed earthenware terracotta lamps became the dominant oil lamp style in the Roman world…

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