A choice condition and lovely terracotta fertility figure of female form, Bajaur (Indus Valley), c. 3000-2500 BC.

A hollow mould-made Indus Valley red terracotta statuette modelled in a stylised manner with applied facial features of birdlike form. Also with applied arms to the cone-shaped body. She is folding her hands as if in prayer in front of her breast.

Size: 11 cm. tall...

A very rare Three-dimensional representations of a living being, Harappa, Indus Valley, c. 3500-2500 BC.

A lovely bird figure made hollow in a Pseudo-vessel form with one round filling hole in the side, but without spout. Small round base...

Attractive and rare type of biconical vessel / vase with rim slightly outward, Roman 1st.-3rd cent. AD.

The vase with beautiful irridescence!

Size: 12,2 cm.

Condition: Superb. Perfectly preserved.

Provenance: Old family Collection, 1900-1970.

Attractive and rare type of glass vase, Roman 1st.-3rd cent. AD.

The flask in almost clear glass with beautiful thin irridescence!

Size: 12,2 cm.

Condition: Very fine and intact, some fragments reassembled nicely, but intact, nothing missing.

Provenance: Old family Collection, 1900-1970.

Scarce and attractive ancient glass vase with funnel mouth, Roman 1st.-3rd. century AD.

The flask in blue-green glass with nice silverish patination.

Height: Near 10 cm.

Condition: Superb. Strong with good walls.

Provenance: Old Private Collection and aquired before 1990 in the German antiques market.

An attractive ancient silver seal ring, Parthian Kingdom, c. 200 BC-200 AD.

The ring finely made in high grade silver and engraved with a bird on the oval bezel.

Ringsize: 48-49 (EU - France, Germany), equals to US size 4.5-5.

Ex. Gert Clef collection, aquired in the 1990s.

Important large stamp seal made in pale green calcite, South Mesopotamia, Late Uruk / Jemdet nasr period, 3300-2900 BC.

Hemispheric seal with a wonderful free carving in a drill style of birds in a highly attractive and rare stone for the period. Pronounced collar round the ends of the perforations. This particular feature is rarely seen on such a large Uruk seal.

Size: 38 x 33 mm. 16-17 mm...

A nice domed hemispheric bronze stamp seal with high handle, Byzantine, 9th.-11th. cent.

The engraving deep and artfully made.

Size: 2,2 cm. tall.

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 scarce to rare hemispheric stamp seal with loop at the back, probably Luristan, pre-historic period, 5th.-4th. millenium BC.

The seal of an excellent style in a greenish-black stone, carved with a star radiating from circular border and a central dot / Leaf-shaped pattern.

Diameter: c. 19 mm...

A wonderful large stamp seal with stag and perhaps a young stag below, Anatolia, c. 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

A thick seal deeply engraved with a vivid motif in a serpentine stone.

Size: c. 34-35 mm...

Attractive and impressive large stamp seal, engraved with a standing mufflon, Anatolia, c. 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

A thick seal in a square gable form, deeply engraved with a vivid motif in the black serpentine stone.

Size: c...

A fine stamp seal in a greenish black serpentine stone, probably Northern Mesopotamia, 5h.-4th. millenium BC.

A very early hemispheric seal with a fine free style engraving of an animal on the face and a loop at the back.

Size: 21-22 mm...

A very atractive bronze seal ring with two confronting figures, probably angels, standing, Late Roman-Byzantine, 4th.-6th. century AD.

The ring of a typical Roman design with raised shoulders and oval bezel.

Ringsize (inner diameter): 19 mm.

Condition: Good Very fine, attractive museum style cleaning and preservation...

A very atractive bronze seal ring with two standing figures - helmeted and probably female deities, Late Roman, 3rh.-5th...

Interesting and very rare pendant or finial of the Hittite period in Anatolia, c. mid 2nd. millenium BC.

The finial shaped with a bull head on top of another bull.

Size: 6 cm. long and 4,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Fine, earthern green patina, somewhat flaking at the edges, but sound enough.

Ex. Hafnia Coins inventory from c. 1990s.

Fine stamp seal made in white stone, South Mesopotamia, Late Uruk / Jemdet nasr period, 3300-2900 BC.

Hemispheric seal carved with dots in the drill style.

Size: 26 mm. in diameter.

Comes with the original collection ID-Card from the Oberländer collection!

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

A fine and very large bronze seal with a loop on the back and a wheel-like ornament with 10 spokes and two crescents, Bactria, 3rd. millenium BC.

Size: c. 5 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Very fine for type with typical thick green patina.

Comes with the original collection ID-Card from the Oberländer collection!

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

A fine and large bronze seal with a loop on the back and a beautiful elaborate cross design, Bactria, c. mid 3rd. millenium BC.

The seal belongs to one of the varied mostly circular metal “stamp seals” relief cast in bronze or copper alloy, but more rarely in silver or gold, which is classified as so-called “compartmented seal” (a term first used in 1943 by the British archaeologist Stuart Pigott – 1943. P. 179–180, fig. 4) fabricated in openwork and with closely related cha...