Items of the Month: Olive Oil’s Legacy

Black glazed oil- lamp, reproduction of an original from the ancient mine galleries mid 5th cent BCE.  Our collection of oil lamps draws inspiratio...

Cocked 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...

Black glazed oil- lamp, based on an original from the ancient mine galleries mid 5th cent BCE.  Oil lamps and torches constituted the primary sourc...

Black glazed perfume oil-flask based on Attic aryballoi of the early 5th cent BCE (ca 500 BCE). An aryballos (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) w...

Black-figure and black-glazed small spouted vessel with a handle Similar small vases from the 5th century BCE are associated with children and are ...

from Thetis cabinet (one-of-a-kind)  Small squat oil flask (lekythos) featuring the head of a woman, possibly looking into a mirror, based on an or...

from Thetis cabinet (one-of-a-kind)  Small squat oil flask (lekythos) featuring the head of a woman, based on an original from the Archaeological M...

Red 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...

Archaic Aryballos (Oil Flask), ca. 620–590 BCE This piece is inspired by an Early Corinthian aryballos housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Du...

Red figure perfumed oil flask by the Clinique painter  This hand-painted vase is a striking reproduction of an ancient Attic aryballos (perfumed oi...

A Black-Figure Shoulder Lekythos (oil flask) by the Taleides Painter, ca. 550-540 BC This exquisite piece is inspired by an original black-figure s...

from Thetis cabinet (one-of-a-kind)  Introducing our exquisite Black Figure Lekythos (oil flask), adorned with a captivating horse-raci...

from THETIS Cabinet (one-of-a-kind) Red figure large lekyhtos (oil-flask) depicting the god Hermes and the prince of Troy Paris, well known from th...