Ancient Greek lekythos - warriors and athenian owl - Miniature Ceramic piece - Geometric Period - Handmade in Greece

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Height: 9 cm - 3,54 inches
Width: 3,5cm - 1,37 inches
Length: 3,5 cm - 1,37 inches
Weight: 60 g
Material: clay, paint, ceramic, terracotta

This is a piece of Greek art. A greek vase of Geometric Period adorned with figures of humans and animals.
Greek pottery, the pottery of the ancient Greeks, important both for the intrinsic beauty of its forms and decoration and for the light it sheds on the development of Greek pictorial art. Because fired clay pottery is highly durable—and few or no Greek works in wood, textile, or wall painting have survived—the painted decoration of this pottery has become the main source of information about the process whereby Greek artists gradually solved the many problems of representing three-dimensional objects and figures on a flat or curved surface. The large number of surviving examples is also the result of a much wider reliance on pottery vessels in a period when other materials were expensive or unknown. The Greeks used pottery vessels primarily to store, transport, and drink such liquids as wine and water. Smaller pots were used as containers for perfumes and unguents.
Each piece is unique so the patina may have differences from item to item.