Archaic Greek cup Attic Apulian Etruscan terracotta

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Dear eBay Trading Partner, I urge you to carefully read this entire listing , including shipping details. This will help you to understand the very rare and finite opportunity which my auctions on eBay afford you. You are probably aware fraudulent items (especially antiquities) are frequently sold on eBay. Buying a pair of fake Levi's Jeans might be merely annoying, but getting taken for hundreds, or thousands, could be far more painful. My auctions are for genuine items and I stand by them. My prices are often higher for seemingly similar items. T is a reason for this: authentic items ! You are bidding on an item from the collection of Marcel Gibrat (see brief bio below). This is an archaic greek cup. Estimate : $500-700 Category : Archaic Greek Culture/Country : Greece Period : 700BC Size : 4 inches high Media/Material : Terracotta and paint Description: A 7th Century BC Greek terracotta cup. Provenance : Marcel Gibrat Collection; Marcel Gibrat Restoration, Arts & Antiquites Studio, New York Be sure to add me to your favorites list .Note I charge a US $3.99 handling fee for each item.Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back, minus S&H, within 7 days of reciept! ALL REFUNDS BY PAYPAL REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT . T his item is from the collection of my grandfather, Marcel Gibrat, 1915-1993. Mr. Gibrat worked as an art restorer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1957 to 1965. He specialized in restoration of antiquities, paintings and fine arts. Among his restorations are these Assyrian Stone Griffins which he reassembled from dozens of fragments. Mr. Gibrat owned and operated a restoration studio/ art & antiquities gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City from 1965 to 1991. In 1969 Mr. Gibrat was visited by a Mr. Chensas, an Iranian antiquities dealer who introduced him to the idea of becoming an antiquities dealer. He started to buy at Sotheby's, Christie's and other New York area auction houses at that time. He also bought a lot of antiquites directly from Iran and Iraq (Mesopotamia). This continued a thirty-five-year love affair with antiquites and fine arts. While many of the pieces in the collection have provenance, the records are so confusing, that it is not feasable to say w each and every item comes from. Tfore the items listed on eBay represent an exceptional value for the collector. I stand by my representations of each item, and have a generous return policy (above). In addition it is a crime (fraud) to knowingly represent non-ancient items as genuine. Should you find a piece to be non-ancient, which is so represented, I will refund your money! Mr. Gibrat was a voluminous collector: the complete collection comprises many, many items from antiquities to modern art. Many items from the collection will be listed on eBay, over the next one to two years. Mr. Gibrat was also an outstanding artist who worked in many styles, but developed his own post-impressionist style in which he worked from the 1960's on. His paintings may appear someday in the $1000-10,000 range. Hint: do a google search for "Marcel Gibrat" and you will see that reputable galleries are selling items from Mr. Gibrat's collection and honoring the provenence, in addition to selling the items for two to three times what they are buying them for from me. So go ahead and pay much more later or take advantage of getting estate prices without buying the estate. I guarantee you opportunities like this are rare. happy Bidding! Check out my other items . Sign up for PayPal ; the fast, easy, and secure way to pay online. read more

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