Pair of ancient Roman gold earrings consisting of roundels on front and smaller roundels on top and bottom of glass beads. 2nd/3rd Century. 1 1/8 inches high. From a NYC collection.
Pendant consisting of an ancient Roman glass bead with ancient gold roundel on top and on bottom with gold loop on top for suspension. 2nd/3rd century. 5/8 inch. From a NYC collection.
Depicting the head of Alexander The Great. With holes for attachment. Probably used as an ornament on clothing. 3rd Century B.C. 9/16 inch. Ex. NYC collection.
A fine Roman terracotta Aphrodite/Venus, standing nude in a sensuous pose on an integral base, pulling a voluminous cape around her back, with a dolphin depicted on her right side. Single line of inscription on the back of the base. 1st Century AD. 12 1/4 inches high. Repaired. From a NYC private collection.
Depicting an elderly man with well-defined eyes, high cheek bones, thin lips, wrinkled cheeks, crease on forehead, thick wavy hair, thick mustache and thick beard. 2nd/3rd Century. 5 1/2 inches high. Ancient losses. Mounted. From a West coast private collection.
Greek figure of a goddess wearing a pointed cap and a diadem with large petals. 6th Century B.C. 4 1/8 inches high. Mounted. Ex. Dutch private collection. Collected in the 1960s.
With finely modeled facial details. She is wearing a polos above her brow of archaic style curls, with braids at both sides of her head. 6th Century B.C. 5 inches high. Ex. Dutch private collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Of high domed form with long cheek-guards and everted neck-guard, parallel ridges on the crown, rivet in front used for attachment of the crest, perimeter of the cheek-guards and front of helmet finely incised with beading design. 6th Century B.C. 10 1/2 inches high. Ex. NYC private collection.
With carved facial details and hair grooved to receive diadem. Possibly depicting Ptolemy IV. 3rd/2nd Century B.C. 2 1/2 inches high. Ex. collection of President Marius Suzanne, Judge of the International Tribunal, Alexandria, 1905-1920. Similar heads are on exhibit in the Brooklyn Museum.
Tightly wrapped in her himation and chiton, standing with her weight on her left leg, the right knee slightly bent, with her foot emerging from beneath the drapery, her right arm straight down on her side, her left arm resting above her hip. Hellenistic Period, 4th/3rd Century B.C. 5 1/2 inches high. Intact with encrustations and remains of white slip. Old NYC collection
Hellenistic female head with prominent facial details, wearing earrings and long straight hair pulled back. 3rd/2nd Century B.C. 2 3/4 inches high. Mounted. Ex. Israeli private collection, purchased in the 1960s.
A western Greek terracotta protome mask, with almond-shaped eyes, strong nose and full lips with smiling expression. 5th/6th Century B.C. 6 inches high. Repaired. Ex. NYC private collection.
Female torso, wearing an elaborate himation with shallow folds and tied with a rope underneath her breasts. 2nd/3rd Century. 4 inches high. Intact as shown. Ex. NYC collection.
Greek terracotta figure of a pudgy comedy actor seated on a pedestal, wearing a mask, legs crossed at the ankles, his right arm bent at the elbow, his right hand holding his left arm, his left arm bent at the elbow, his head tilted slightly to his left, his head resting on his left arm. Hellenistic, 3rd/4th Century B.C. 4 7/8 inches high. Intact. Extensive remains of white slip and original pigment. From a NYC collection.
Roman marble torso of an Eros or a youthful Silvanus. The pudgy young male stands with his slightly raised right arm held out to his side, wearing some drapery over his left shoulder and chest, well-defined left hand grasping the drapery, drapery holding fruit, possibly pomegranites and with exposed male genitalia. Back left rough. Possibly from a relief or sarcophagus. 2nd/3rd Century. 8 inches high. Mounted. Ex. California private collection.
