A Roman bronze handle with swan head finial. Clasps at base indicate spoon "bowl" would be clamped onto this handle. A unique piece! 6-1/2"H. Custom Stand. ...click for details
Rome, Ca. 1st - 3rd century AD. A double-chambered glass makeup vessel with the original bronze applicator. Height of glass: 4-3/8" (11.5 cm). Handle lacking, otherwise intact.
Provenance: Found at Beth Shean (Buson), Syria, in the 19th century; formerly in a 19th century New York private collection.
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Rome, Ca 1st-2nd Century CE. Huge! A very large bronze toga pin with a leaf grasp, and a twisted metal designed arm. 6-1/2”L, intact with a nice patina.
Rome, Ca. 1st Century BCE/CE. Of dark blue glass with white canes, the shallow bowl resting on a slightly-concave bottom; with a flat, flaring rim with irregular edge. The cobalt blue matrix contains mostly white canes as well as two white striped bits and four green and yellow canes. ½”H x 2”D. Intact/excellent condition. Interior smoothly polished to bring out depth of color.
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Ancient Rome, Ca. 2nd Century BCE to 1st Century CE. Idealized roman youth with robes draped over shoulders and wings on back. Right hand originally held a narrow object. Stands on platform, hole in back created before firing so statuette would not explode. 7-3/4”H, intact.
Provenance: Ex-prominent New York City Gallery, NY
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Ca. 2nd - 1st century BCE. Iron shield boss / umbo of rectangular form with a raised lentoid center, along with two iron arm and hand grips from the interior of the shield.
Maximum height: 9-5/8"H (24.3 cm), intact. Confer: P.F. Stary, 'Ursprung und Ausbreitung der eisenzeitlichen Ovalschilde mit spindelformigem Schildbuckel,' Germania 59, (1981), 287-306, no.43; also a similar example in the Romanian Military Museum, Bucharest.
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Gaul, La Te?ne Period Ca. 3rd-1st Century BCE. An ancient bronze open form oil lamp with a twisted handle in the form of a long horned stag. 9-1/2"L (24.2 cm), intact.
Provenance: Formerly in a German private collection.
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