Graham Taylor's Replica of a Siren Arryballos

# 865722 Online Item

US $40.00 Retail Value
US $ 15.00 Opening Bid
   
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Description

Graham Taylor, a Potted History Heritage Potter, is offering this Replica Arryballos in the form of a Siren.

Perfume has been fragrancing our lives for thousands of years, and the Greeks have been producing perfume for both men and women for millennia. So highly regarded were these sweet smelling oils that they were stored in elaborate and beautiful bottles, like this red slipped siren bottle. In Greek mythology sirens were considered to be highly dangerous creatures, that would use enchanting songs to lure sailors to their deaths. Often depicted as half bird, half woman this bottle is based on an example on display in the Palazzo Leoni Montanari in the Veneto region of Italy.

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