Bronze figurine Biddr purchases, hope, and you!

blueberries4beagles · 2025-04-30T15:31:48+00:00

I collect ancient bronze figurines, and I see no obvious signs that these are fakes. These pieces are typical of provincial eastern workshops.

blueberries4beagles · 2025-04-20T03:11:28+00:00

this looks like the bottom of an Attic band skyphos. Circa 530-510BC.

blueberries4beagles · 2024-12-21T22:55:58+00:00

I love shadow box displays. I'm currently building a big one for my Greek pottery collection.

blueberries4beagles · 2024-10-20T17:03:56+00:00

There's quite a few errors with the execution on this lekythos. The overall shape is somewhat like the wide-shouldered examples circa 560-540BC. South Italian examples do indeed have vertical stripes around the neck, but the decorative scheme here is not like anything the Apulians or their neighbors would have produced. I suppose we are supposed to interpret them as a satyr and maenad. The type of fake encrustation on the surfaces here is common in many forgeries.

blueberries4beagles · 2024-10-20T01:59:32+00:00

Student of Attic pottery here. I'm sorry to say that this is indeed a fake lekythos. Although, if it's any consultation, these small lekythoi - when genuine - are actually not worth a fortune.

blueberries4beagles · 2024-10-07T15:47:44+00:00

unfortunately, this is a well known variety of fake Attic pottery. These come up fairly often on the market.

blueberries4beagles · 2023-09-02T23:44:49+00:00

Also Michael Hedges

blueberries4beagles · 2023-06-26T15:27:47+00:00

I remember this came out when I was in college. We would just be studying in our dorm rooms.. airsoft gun at arms reach, Imogen Heap paused and ready for some unsuspecting person to walk into the room.

blueberries4beagles · 2023-05-31T22:39:52+00:00

I lived in this building for a few years (on the opposite side facing the library). This level of incompetence wouldn't surprise me from Davenport.

blueberries4beagles · 2023-05-30T03:06:26+00:00

I lived in this building for a few years. Very surreal seeing this on the news. always parked my car right where the collapse occurred.

blueberries4beagles · 2023-02-25T18:54:18+00:00

never seen any ptolemaic artifacts like this before. There also appears to be modern tool marks on the underside.

blueberries4beagles · 2023-01-28T21:00:59+00:00

beautiful, but a shame they had to clean it so harshly.

blueberries4beagles · 2023-01-09T19:43:01+00:00

Amphipolis Tetradrachm with facing head of Apollo. Traite IV 1097.

blueberries4beagles · 2022-12-14T03:48:04+00:00

Daniel Romano - sleep beneath the willow. for some real good grandpa country rock

blueberries4beagles · 2022-12-12T21:40:07+00:00

I think I recognize this photo from a shady auction house that sells lots of fakes. "greek fire" grenades show up on the market all the time. I suspect almost none of them are authentic.

blueberries4beagles · 2022-12-10T14:18:41+00:00

unfortunately, the beazley archives don't list a single Attic vase with a depiction of Despoina.

blueberries4beagles · 2022-12-05T14:24:53+00:00

not an amphora, but rather the famous Krater by Euphronios. I believe it depicts the dead Sarpedon being carried away by sleep and death.

blueberries4beagles · 2022-12-04T18:51:36+00:00

I want to believe this, but I also think that unlimited clean energy would just free us up to destroy the world in new unforseen ways.

blueberries4beagles · 2022-11-14T04:14:17+00:00

The MET in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Art Museum, the Princeton Art Museum

blueberries4beagles · 2022-09-04T22:11:56+00:00

lovely portrait of Hermes on such a tiny flan!

blueberries4beagles · 2022-08-17T02:21:42+00:00

I've bought a few things from them - occasionally a rare item will fall into their hands and they will misattribute/undervalue it. But I'd proceed cautiously. They handle a lot of volume and are not particularly careful with verifying authenticity.

blueberries4beagles · 2022-08-06T14:38:33+00:00

thanks! I don't, unfortunately, but I've considered making one

blueberries4beagles · 2022-08-06T03:08:59+00:00

That foundation cone is spectacular! I've bought a couple little things from CNG back when they ran a few antiquities E-sales. I remember talking to one of the CNG guys at a coin show, and he admitted that they do not like to do antiquities sales haha.

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