Black basalt plaque of probably Aristophanes, circa 1790, possibly Leeds Pottery

Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athensand a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.

Ex Goldfein Collection

Dimensions: 2 ⅞” by 2 ¼”

Condition: Small chip on the back by the hanging holes

 



£68

US$89