Dating: 17th Century Provenance: Germany Straight, flame-shaped blade, on a side a strong raiser worked with woven chiselling, the tip shaped as an arrow. The quillon as bat wings, with hollow faces engraved with racemes. Bone grip, flat on a side and convex on the other, decorated with engraved effigy of soldiers and flowers within frames, iron cap. Scabbard of bone sectors engraved with floral motifs, with grotesque figures, at the front the high-relieved effigy of a soldier in his armour...

Shabti for Padihoremheb

Oushebti inscrit sur une colonne ventrale au nom de Padihoremheb, fils de Isetherti, général. Il porte la perruque tripartite, la barbe postiche et les instruments aratoires en relief. Exemplaire atypique Faïence verte pâle sans glaçure incrusté de faïence mauve.

Origin: Egypt

Period: Late Period, 30. Dynastie

Date: 382-340 B.C.

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 13,5 cm...

Deep blue glazed faience shabti for Nesy-per-nub, one of the important priests in the second Cache of Deir El Bahri. His shabtis display text variants that refer to his various titles.
The two columns of hieroglyphic text read: (1) O shabti, say: I will irrigate [the riparian lands] (2) for the Osiris, the ‘Scribe of the temple of Mut’, Nesy-per-nub, justified.
The hieroglyph for the goddess Mut is cursorily rendered...

Black-figure depiction of naked youths with clamydes that cover their shoulders and bystanders clad in cloaks. All figures hold spears.
The scene is framed with ivy garlands on the sides and buds alternating with dots on the marked shoulder. A row of tongues emerge from the ridged junction to the neck.
Applied red on the outer edge of the rim and the sideward rotelles, the ridged junction to the neck, the garments and the fillet of one youth...

Rare and Ancient Celtic Stone Janus from the Published and Renowned Collection of Irwin Hersey, renowned author on primitive art, and publisher of the Primitive Art Newsletter in the 1970s. Irwin Hersey was an advisor to museums and prominent collectors, and vetted pieces for many of the international tribal art fairs. 4.5 inches wide, 3 inches high.

Fine zoomorphic askos in the shape of a crouching cow.
The barrel-shaped body decorated with owls facing each other with their wings raised, the other side features a large (tuna?) fish. The owls rendered in silhouette technique, the fish with reserved eye and teeth.
The animal crouches on short straight forelegs, the hind legs are folded up under the body
Ceramic
Greek Sicilian, Selinunte Group, 450-425 BC
L. 13.3 cm (5.2 in)
H...

A magnificent museum quality authentic antique ,ancient Chinese marble Buddhist stele (sculpture), Sui Dynasty (581-618 AD) centering a standing Buddha in long robe, with his hair drawn up into the usnisa, on a lotus base supported by two animals resting on the rectangular plinth base, flanked by four Bodhisattvas also wearing robes and standing on lotus flowers under a flaming mandorla.

MEASUREMENTS: Height: 50.8 cm (20 inches). Width: 29.3 cm (11 1/2 inches. Weight approximately: 14 lb...

Partly hammered and partly engraved bronze belt of elliptical form.
Richly decorated with nine central bosses surrounded by concentric circles. On the sides stylized waterfowls emerging from a herringbone design.
The sideward bosses with engraved with rays and circles look much like sun symbols.
Engraved fine-line waterfowls at each end of the belt...

This is an impressively preserved Terracotta Tomb Pottery, Sancai-Glazed figure of Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals. He is one of the most widely known of the Eight Daoist Immortals and considered to be the leader of the group. He is thought to have lived during the Tang Dynasty (618-906) and he is depicted as a scholarly gentleman. He appears sitting on a stool, holding a fan...

Djedptahiufankh – Dd-ptH-iwf-anx Worker 2

with inscription (without vertical lines) and prince title

Deir el-Bahri - Cache I - Royal Cache DB320

Also known as Djedptahiwfankh, Djedptahioufankh, Zadptahefonkhou

The name means ‘Ptah has spoken and he lives

Djedptahiufankh is only known from his burial and mummy...

We're happy to present a very rare and absolutely stunning Danish Fishtail dagger, latest neolithic fase in Daggertime, around 1800 BC.

The rather large dagger with finely made microseams on each side of the handle. On this type, the cross-section of the handle is diamond-shaped on the front and more oval flat on the back. The handle is also decorated with a particularly beautiful mid-seam. The blade worked very thin and symethric.

Size: c. 19,4 cm...

Attic red-figure cup with a nude athlete standing between a stele and an altar.
The right arm is outstretched towards the altar in front of him, with the left hand he holds a strigil close to his body.
The young man wears a purple fillet with a vertical spike at the front. The eye is depicted in profile. The hair over the forehead with a row of dangling dots. Thin relief lines, much preliminary sketch, graceful style.
The scene may portray a prayer or an oath ceremony perfo...

Shabti for Amenhatpamecha Typ 4

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun

Amenhatpamecha – imn-HAt-pA-mSa Type 4

Also known as Amenemhatpamecha, Amenhatpamesha, Amenemhet, Imenhatpamecha, Amumemhatpamescha.

The name means ‘Amen is at the front of his army’, ‘Amen is the commander/chief of the army‘, see the remarks at type 4.

God’s father of Amen, God’s father of Mut (a papyrus also indicates his devoti...

BICHROME GLAZED ROYAL TILE FRAGMENTS OF " Seti II" 4,2cm.

New Kingdom, late Dynasty 19, reign of Seti II, c.1237-1200 B.C.E.

Originally from a palace, probably in the delta capital of Piramessu.

From an old German collection.

Condition: look at pictures.

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Ancient solid silver belt plaque from the Scytho-Siberian (Siberian Scythian) civilization, dating back to the 5th-3rd century B.C. The plaque is shaped like a crouching feline, possibly a leopard, and has two loops at the back for attachment. The loops are made of silver strips soldered to the plaque's rear. The plaque was cast and then hand-reshaped using the repousse technique. Additionally, it was pierced and chased to create its intricate design.

MEASUREMENTS:

Overall length in a...

Egyptian bronze striding of the jackal god Anubis wit 2 Uraeus cobras at his feet. Broken at the ankles and glued. Height 3 3/8 inches Base 1 5/8 x 5/8 inch Purchased from a private collector in the US in 1999. Item was tested and was found to be authentic. A copy of the report can be requested.

Early Viking or Vendel time in Scandinavia. Two dragon heads turn against each other. A very rare scholar example of Viking art. Condition: Very good condition. Measurement: 4 cm = 1.6 in

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Ancient 5th -3rd century B.C. Scytho - Siberian (Siberian Scythian) solid silver belt plaque in the shape of a crouched feline perhaps a leopard fitted at the reverse with two loops for attachment. The two attachment loops are made of silver strips soldered to the rear of the plaque. The plaque is cast, then hand reshaped in repousse, pierced, and chased.

MEASUREMENTS: Overall length in a straight line:7.5cm (2.95 inches). Width: 3.1 cm (1.22 inches). Weight: 28 grams.

Provenance...