Pygmy and Cranes Astragalos
A large knucklebone with a red figure depiction of a pygmy warrior fighting a crane with a club and a free flying crane on the other side. Dwarfis...
View full detailsThe products include ancient toys (dolls, marbles, astragalus bones, iynx, spinning tops, figurines), digging kits and puzzles, jewellery, tableware (drinking vessels, plates and other black glazed pottery from the ancient Athens Agora), cooking pots and artefacts inspired by the Prehistoric pottery of the Cyclades and Thessaly.
They are classified according to type, style and availability. Don't miss the objects from the Thetis' Cabinet /One-of-a-kind items, which were made during the first decade of our experimental production at THETIS Workshop.
ATTIC BLACK ceramics are hand-thrown or hand modelled, hand painted with clay-based slips and the colours emerge during firing. They are free of toxic elements or acrylic materials and are not affected by usual liquids (tea, coffee, wine, vinegar, oil, detergents) or exposure to heat.
A large knucklebone with a red figure depiction of a pygmy warrior fighting a crane with a club and a free flying crane on the other side. Dwarfis...
View full detailsA large knucklebone with a black figure comic-like depiction of Odysseus with Circe and an apotropaic eye decoration In the first scene, the witch...
View full detailsBlack-figure and black-glazed small spouted vessel with a handle Similar small vases from the 5th century BCE are associated with children and are ...
View full detailsFrom Thetis' cabinet One-Handled Kantharos with Phallic Spout, Attica, ca. 460 BC This unique kantharos, originating from Attica, breaks with the t...
View full detailsRed figure Aryballos with the armed owl The armed owl that decorates the surface of this classical aryballos (perfumed oil flask) is based on a sim...
View full detailsBlack glazed perfume oil-flask based on Attic aryballoi of the early 5th cent BCE (ca 500 BCE). An aryballos (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) w...
View full detailsBlack glazed oil- lamp, based on an original from the ancient mine galleries mid 5th cent BCE. Oil lamps and torches constituted the primary sourc...
View full detailsBlack glazed oil- lamp, reproduction of an original from the ancient mine galleries mid 5th cent BCE. Our collection of oil lamps draws inspiratio...
View full detailsRed figure perfumed oil flask by the Clinique painter This hand-painted vase is a striking reproduction of an ancient Attic aryballos (perfumed oi...
View full detailsCocked Hat Lamp from Cyprus and the Levant, ca. 1500-600 BCE The earliest clay lamps were shallow bowls in which a wick was floated in a pool of oi...
View full detailsArchaic Aryballos (Oil Flask), ca. 620–590 BCE This piece is inspired by an Early Corinthian aryballos housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Du...
View full detailsPersephone’s Pomegranate A handcrafted clay pomegranate inspired by an 8th-century BCE prototype from the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis. The pom...
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