A set of two stamp seals with animal and Nisa Emblem, Sassanian, 4th.-6th. century AD
Beautiful Hemaetite stones used.
Size: ca. 14 mm. and 12 mm in diameter.
Condition: Choice, light chips to the emblem seal.
Ex. Austrian private Collection, ca. 1970.
Interesting gable seal, probably North-Mesopotamian, 4th. millenium BC.
The seal engraved with a finely carved filled cross, elongated in form...
A scarce, seldomly offered, hemispheric stamp seal, probably Luristan or Susa area, pre-historic period, 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
The seal of an excellent style and nice carved in a serpentine black stone with a star radiating from a circular borders and a central dot.
Size: c. 20 mm...
An attractive bronze figure of a Rooster on top of a seal ring, 10th.-12th. century AD.
Very attractive with fine redish and green patina.
Size: 7,1 cm. tall.
Ex. Collection of a Goldsmith in the Rhineland, ca. 1960s.
Another interesting larger stamp in fine calchedony, quaranteed ancient.
Size: 22 mm. tall and 18 mm. wide.
Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
A fine condition square stamp seal in black stone, carved with a elaborate cross design, the seal a flat square, Ancient Near East, probably Luristan, 4th. mill. BC.
Szie: 20 mm. x 20 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine, hard uncleaned earthern deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
A nice scaraboid after Egyptian model, Western Mesopotamia, late 2nd. millenium BC.
Carved in a fine purple stone with Deer springing and a fish, crescent above for the Moon god Sin.
Size: 16x 12 x 8 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine, with minor ancient chip.
This seal comes with original ID card and hard impression from below collection...
A pair of silver bowls with great potential for repairing, Sasanian, c. 3td.-6th. century AD.
Lot includes a hammered bowl with fine decoration in repousé and a larger crack and loss, plus another hammered bowl without decor with a small crack and loss. Both bowls are hammered in rather thin silver and uncleaned with some green encrustation.
A nice lot that can be much more valuable when finely restored!
Size: 14,7 and 15,3 cm...
A lovely high relief Cylinder seal in a greyish brown hard and glossy stone, Mesopotamia, Uruk period, 4th. millenium BC.
OBS! Comes with the original ID card from below collection.
Interesting leafy design that we've seen on much earlier stamps from Halaf-Ubaid.
Size: 22 mm. x 12 mm...
A lovely stamp seal uncleaned and as found, still with dirt in the devices and with uncleaned deposits! Round seal engraved in the base with a Cruciform design and pierced through, Mesopotamian, Late Ubad- Early Uruk period, 4th. millenium BC.
Size: 20 mm.
Condition: Good Very fine, small gauge at the back, othervise intact and with great cleaning potential...
A finely patinated bronze intaglio with the depiction of a winged lion or beast, Mesopotamia, probably Achaemenid, c. 1st. mill. BC.
Fine style and attractive.
Size: 17 x 16 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine.
Comes with imprint and COA.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
A highly interesting and beautiful Redstone (Jasper?) Scaraboid, Levantine / Holyland, 1st. millenium BC.
This seal predates the Greco-Persian period of Scaraboids and was made during the Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 10th.-8th. century BC.
The seal is engraved with a complicated pattern, like multible Swaztikas or perhaps a scetched bird (?). Very sharp and attractive engraving
Size: 16 mm.
Ex R.T. Private collection, since 1958 in Münich, Germany.
FINE POTTERY BOWL WITH GREEN GLACE, WESTERN-CENTRAL ASIA, 10TH-11TH. CENTURY AD.
A beautiful bowl decorated with a wonderful glossy rich glace in green.
Size: ca 175 mm. wide and 75 mm. deep.
Condition: Choice for type, some gentle resoration, much original glace and looks unrestored.
Ex. Copenhagen Dealers collection, aquired over a period 20 years.
A nice stamp seal, found at the ancient city of Antioch (Amüg-Ebene) on the border between Anatolia and Mesopotamia, probably late Halaf-early Ubaid period, c. 5th. mill...
A fine large brown stone stamp seal with high relief, Ancient Near East, probably Mesopotamia, Uruk period, 4th...
A scarce and attractive seal dating to the late neolithic period, Halaf, Western Mesopotamia c. 6th. mill. BC.
Finely carved in a black stone with a medium tall handle, and carved with a grit pattern in the base.
Finding place given as Amúng Ebene, near Ancient Antioch!
Size: 25 mm x 22 mm. and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF or better! Light wear to base-
Comes with hard impression and original ID-card from the collection. It was aquired in 1993.
An intact and attractive pottery bowl, 9th.-10th. century AD.
The bowl decorated with stylized caligraphy in green-brown on a beige ground.
Size: 12,8 cm. wide and 5 cm. tall.
Condition: Choice, original glaze, perhaps a chip restored, but difficult to spot.
Provenance: Important Danish-French Private collection, (aquired 1970- c. 2007) of Islamic pottery ware from the 9th.-12th. century. Comes with COA.
An interesting and rare stamp seal of a triangular form with a carved base and loop, Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. millenium BC.
The seal is particularly finely engraved with a horned animal and some interesting 'glyphs' in a freese above. With Egyptian inspiration and probably from the Middle Assyrian period, made close to the Egypt border.
Size: 14 x 11 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine.
Comes with Old collection card and imprint.
Provenance: Gustav...