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Hixenbaugh’s Greek Geometric Amphora

5386a-lHixenbaugh Ancient Art in Manhattan, New York, the antiquities dealer that sells ancient art and authentic antiquities from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Europe has updated its website to include over fifty recently acquired objects. Among them is a Greek Geometric Amphora dating to the early part of the 8th Century BC, to Greeceā€™s Geometric period.

It was made in one of the most skilled workshops in Athens that later produced the so-called vases of the Dipylon Master. It is decorated around the body with a simple but bold pattern of wide dark bands separated by fields of thin narrow lines and a Greek key design is painted on its neck.

Geometric pottery production began as Greece reemerged from the Dark Age after the decline of the Mycenaean Bronze Age civilization. Geometric pottery was austere but precise in its execution. The shapes and decorative motifs that would eventually be predominant in Classical Greek vase painting are at first evident in the Greek Geometric pottery of the 8th century BC.

The Greek Geometric Amphora, among other newly acquired items, is available at the New York Gallery of Hixenbaugh Ancient Art. The company handles fine authentic antiquities that are legally acquired in complete accordance with the US and international regulations and laws concerning the import and sale of ancient objects.

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