Rare antique Persian Kubachi ware bowl or charger featuring two peacocks in a garden and racing horses on its outer rim. Heavy cracquelure as expected in such a piece. 15 1/2" in diameter and 3" deep.

A wonderful massive seal with fine engravings, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

With the almost square seal plate and the type of handle this seal is the proto-type of the later Neo-Hittite seals, but this one much earlier. The base engraved with a large Deer with large Antler and on top, a smaller stag or horned animal, and a 3rd. animal in the corner, perhaps a hunting dog.

Size: 23 mm. x 22 mm. and 15 mm...

A fine large black serpentine stamp seal of scarce round form, Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

The seal is carved with a fine angled cross motif with triangular forms (arrow-points or wedges) in each field, all a high relief. It has a low pierced handle on the back.

Diameter: 31 mm. and 10 mm...

Highly interesting scaraboid seal of the earliest style and type we've seen, probably inspired by Egyptian scarab seals, Middle bronze age of the Levant, c. 2200-1600 BC.

The seal is very large and carved in a greenish black stone. Interestingly, there's remnants of the metal mount, probably a chain in iron or bronze (looks like iron!). The seal is carved with Capride with a bird above...

A finely made flat tablet seal with a fine cruciform carving on one side, the other blank, probably pre- or early Hittite.

Fine style carving, described by Oberländer as c. 1000 BC, we believe it must be a lot earlier than that.

Size: 28 mm. long and 22 mm. wide, 8 mm. thick. mm. in diameter and 17 mm...

A very interesting, large and thick block-shaped seal in black serpentine, Mesopotamian, c. 3rd. mill. BC., could be a bit later (?)

Drill style carving in high relief, very precise and still difficult to sort out, probably an animal but we're not certain. Also see mr. Oberlánders drawing of this motif.

Size: 28 mm. in length and 21 mm. wide, 13 mm. thick.

Condition: VF, some wear smaller losses, basically intact...

A huge round Uruk type of stamp seal, but from Western Mesopotamia or North-Eastern Anatolia, 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

Fine style carving in high relief of a capride with large horns, Spear-point symbol before.

Size: 38 mm. in diameter and 17 mm...

A fine Mesopotamian stone cylinder seal 4th.-3th. millenium BC.

The seal in hard black stone engraved with nice looking animals with two heads.

Size: 19 mm. tall and 12 mm thick.

Condition: Choice VF!

This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputabl...

Interesting and very attractive cylinder seal of an unusually large size, even for the Assyrian cylinders, c. 16th-12th. century BC.

The seal made of sandstone or ceramics and finely carved in deep relief. The motif is a large horned animal walking, above the symbols of the sun and moon god, the Tree of Life before.

Size: 39 mm. tall and 15 mm. thick.

Condition: Choice VF for type, some wear and patina.

This seal was aquired 1990 and comes with hard ...

An interesting a rare cylinder seal in bronze, Eastern Mesopotamia / Greater Persia, c. 2nd. mill. BC.

A very attractive cylinder carved with animals walking on a decorated border below.

Size: 35-36 mm. tall and c. 8 mm. thick.

Condition: Good Very fine, nice light green patina.

Comes with hard impression and COA.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, boug...

A very interesting and uncleaned metal seal in bronze or a silver alloy, Mesopotamia, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr period, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Finely engraved with dots in a symethric pattern.

Size: 19-20 mm. tall and 9 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine or better. Uncleaned with lots of dirt in the devices, so this will improve a whole lot when cleaned.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1...

An attractive and interesting cylinder seal of white stone, Anatolian, c. early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal finely carved with a hunting scene; Humanoid figure standing with spear and bow before a wild animal.

Size: 26 mm. tall. and 11 mm. wide.

Condition: Choice VF, small chip at the top.

This seal was aquired 2007 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer ...

Interesting cylinder seal in black stone, Anatolia, Hittite Empire c. early-mid 2nd. millenium BC.

A fine carving of different animals in a charming later Anatolian style.

Size: 25 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with ancient wear and patina.

This seal was aquired 1990. It comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his mass...

Lovely hemispheric stamp seal with Capride, black stone, Anatolia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

Fine deep relief and quite attractive!

Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 12 mm. tall.

Condition: Good VF.

This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and fr...

A finely engraved larger stone stamp seal of the hemispheric seal, popular in the Uruk period. The seal in engraved with a pattern that could look like an insect or the head of an insect. Very elaborate.

Size: 26 mm. in diameter and 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice VF, small nick and uncleaned deposits, quite attractive.

This seal was aquired 1994 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (192...

A large round stamp seal with a rare depiction engraved in the base, Mesopotamian 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

The seal is engraved with a Capride springing in the forrest as if in flight, struck and pierced through by two spears. The seal is carved in stone with a small handle.

Size: 28 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Nice VF, some tiny chips and deposits, but quite attractive.

This seal was aquired 2008 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from bel...

Attractive larger stamp seal of a particularly fine-corned blackish stone with lighter inclusions, North Mesopotamian, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

It's beautiful shape is almost like a turtles shell and is highly polished and glossy. The base is engraved with an archaic style motif of two insect-like monsters fighting. Probably later Uruk period work.

Size: 27 mm. long, 25 mm. wide and 12 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine.

This seal was aquired 1995 and com...

A large and unusual bifacial stamp seal, Ubaid-Uruk period, Late 5th.-4th. mill. BC.

The seal is round and relatively flat with central piercing and engraved with a symethrical Cruciform pattern on one side and a horned animal on the other side.

Size: c.30 mm. in diameter and 8 mm tall.

Condition: Nice VF, some wear and deposits, but quite attractive.

This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection...