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 | Fine quality Ohi Ware Macha bowl by Yoshio Iwamura |
 | Antique Tibetan painted wood image of Green Tara Bodhisattva |
 | Huge and exceptional Mesopotamian tablet seal, c. 2nd. mil. BC |
 | Extremely RARE Bactrian (BMAC) Ritual Object 2500-1800 BC |
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480718
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
Interesting stone seal, shaped as a stylized scarab after Egyptian model, West-Mesopotamian, among the earliest types of scaraboids, 3rd. millenium BC.
A particularly finely carved specimen with a sophisticated Leaf/heering pattern.
Size: 22 mm. long and 17 mm. wide, 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact and with much uncleaned deposits, so the imprint will improve much when cleaned.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...
A particularly finely carved specimen with a sophisticated Leaf/heering pattern.
Size: 22 mm. long and 17 mm. wide, 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact and with much uncleaned deposits, so the imprint will improve much when cleaned.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...
A huge lead/bronze head of Gorgoneion / Medusa, Roman Empire, 1st.-3rd. century AD.
Interesting oversized item, probably from a piece of furniture or a military cariot. Very high relief and stunning quality portrait, made in lead and bronze.
Size: 10,2 cm. tall and 9,3 cm. wide and weighing 1180 grams - 1,18 kilograms!
Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1980s-1990s, bought from Ancient art dealer Arne Johansen, Pilestrædet Copenhagen c. 1990.
Interesting oversized item, probably from a piece of furniture or a military cariot. Very high relief and stunning quality portrait, made in lead and bronze.
Size: 10,2 cm. tall and 9,3 cm. wide and weighing 1180 grams - 1,18 kilograms!
Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1980s-1990s, bought from Ancient art dealer Arne Johansen, Pilestrædet Copenhagen c. 1990.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480335
Senatus Consulto
$250.00
$250.00
A lovely massive seal engraved with an archaic looking animal. Brown-green stone, Eastern-most Anatolia, c. 4th. mill. BC.
Size: 32 mm. wide and 28 mm. broad, 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Choice VF intact, with finely encrusted and patinated surfaces.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2001...
Size: 32 mm. wide and 28 mm. broad, 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Choice VF intact, with finely encrusted and patinated surfaces.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2001...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480328
Senatus Consulto
$125.00
$125.00
A lovely small stamp seal with high loop handle and carved in a black and white stone, Urartu Kingdom, c. 9th.-7th. cent. BC.
The seal base engraved with an animal. A rare stone seal from this culture and period.
Size: 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, choice and intact with uncleaned patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992...
The seal base engraved with an animal. A rare stone seal from this culture and period.
Size: 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, choice and intact with uncleaned patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480327
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
A fine very large gable seal carved in white stone with smaller and larger animal, Western Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.
Size: 37 mm long and 27 mm wide, 11 mm thick.
Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edges.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995...
Size: 37 mm long and 27 mm wide, 11 mm thick.
Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edges.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480326
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
A fine and impressive large stamp seal with wide loop handle on the back and deeply carved with a cruciform pattern in drill style. Mesopotamia, Uruk period, 3300-2900 BC
Size: 33 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Very fine, sharp seal with minor ancient loss to the rim...
Size: 33 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Very fine, sharp seal with minor ancient loss to the rim...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical
item #1480241
Senatus Consulto
$195.00
$195.00
A very nice tanged bronze dagger, Ancient Near East, dating to early 2nd mill BC.
The dagger with broad shoulders and a tapering blade with a defined central midrib.
Size: 25,5 cm
Condition: A choice dagger with nice patina. Has been cleaned a bit roughly.
Ex Danish Private Collection
The dagger with broad shoulders and a tapering blade with a defined central midrib.
Size: 25,5 cm
Condition: A choice dagger with nice patina. Has been cleaned a bit roughly.
Ex Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical
item #1480240
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
An nice lot of three ancient Bronze daggers from Ancient Near East, early types of the 3rd.-early 2nd. mill. BC.
The lot consist of a larger dagger, 20,8 cm and two smaller ones - 13,6 & 11,3 cm. all different types, incl. a very early type of the 3rd. mill. BC
All three items come with nice patinas and in choice condition.
Ex. Danish Prvate Collection.
The lot consist of a larger dagger, 20,8 cm and two smaller ones - 13,6 & 11,3 cm. all different types, incl. a very early type of the 3rd. mill. BC
All three items come with nice patinas and in choice condition.
Ex. Danish Prvate Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492
item #1480202
Senatus Consulto
$850.00
$850.00
A rare and massive octagonal Islamic tile in Blue & White ceramic material, probably stone-past, imitating Ming Dynasty, Near East, c. 15th.cent. AD
A huge tile with fine style floral decoration in blue and white. Unfortunately missing a bit and put together from three large pieces. The tile is measuring 26,5 cm. x 26 cm. so each of the pieces is basically as large as most tiles are!
Size: 26,5 x 26 cm. and 2,5 cm. thick.
Ex...
A huge tile with fine style floral decoration in blue and white. Unfortunately missing a bit and put together from three large pieces. The tile is measuring 26,5 cm. x 26 cm. so each of the pieces is basically as large as most tiles are!
Size: 26,5 x 26 cm. and 2,5 cm. thick.
Ex...
Ostracon Ancient Art
$420.00
$420.00
Fine rim fragment showing the fight of Herakles against the snake-headed hydra.
The hero brandishes his club while three snake heads appear in front of his chest. The monster’s body winds around the hero’s legs.
Herakles is shown with a muscular body...
The hero brandishes his club while three snake heads appear in front of his chest. The monster’s body winds around the hero’s legs.
Herakles is shown with a muscular body...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000
item #1480170
Senatus Consulto
$325.00
$325.00
Interesting and very rare Bifacial bronze seal, showing both sides of a Peacock, Bactria / Indian antiquitiy, c. 1st. millenium BC.
Very attractive seal with a deep relief carving on both sides. Round and pierced for the string.
Size: 17-18 mm. in diameter and 10-11 mm. thick.
Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.
Very attractive seal with a deep relief carving on both sides. Round and pierced for the string.
Size: 17-18 mm. in diameter and 10-11 mm. thick.
Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479992
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
Larger seal carved in black stone, Western Mesopotamia, 2nd. millenium BC.
A very special and rare stamp seal, carved in the shape of a high tower with 4 turrets. The base engraved with a seated humanoid figure beside a tree. Drilled at the top.
Size: 28 mm. tall and 16,5 mm. wide at the max.
Condition: Very fine, loss to one turret but othervise good very fine and with a nice ancient patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with ...
A very special and rare stamp seal, carved in the shape of a high tower with 4 turrets. The base engraved with a seated humanoid figure beside a tree. Drilled at the top.
Size: 28 mm. tall and 16,5 mm. wide at the max.
Condition: Very fine, loss to one turret but othervise good very fine and with a nice ancient patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479990
Senatus Consulto
$115.00
$115.00
A nice seal carved in in a black stone, Anatolia or Western Mesopotamian, c. 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.
An oval gable or a scaraboid shape and carved with a Cross inside a trangle and rays around.
Size: 21 mm. wide over the base and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, minor flawls.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Ob...
An oval gable or a scaraboid shape and carved with a Cross inside a trangle and rays around.
Size: 21 mm. wide over the base and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, minor flawls.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Ob...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479937
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
Interesting black stone cylinder seal, Western Mesopotamia, Hittite / Provincial Assyrian style of the mid 2nd. millenium BC.
The seal is carved with a large bird and the Tree Of Life.
Condition: Nice VF, basically intact with much uncleaned dirt on the surfaces.
Comes with COA and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and...
The seal is carved with a large bird and the Tree Of Life.
Condition: Nice VF, basically intact with much uncleaned dirt on the surfaces.
Comes with COA and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479902
Senatus Consulto
$575.00
$575.00
A fine cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-orange stone, probably jasper or coral, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.
High relief provincial depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 23-24 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF or better, the seal dirty and will improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
High relief provincial depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 23-24 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF or better, the seal dirty and will improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
JFF Ancient Art
€780.00
€780.00
Nice ancient Egyptian cartonnage fragments with column of hieroglyphic text.
These three cartonnage fragments have an interesting and old provenance. They come from the Commandeur Marius Cazeneuve (1839-1913, he was a French stage magician,
who became a close friend of the queen of Madagascar, Ranavalona III) collection;
he got a lot of antiquities from his friend, the noted Egyptologist and Director of the
Cairo Museum, Gaston Maspero. Some time after that it was in the colle...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479881
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
A fine intact stone wig / separate hair, BACTRIA-MARGIANA COMPLEX, late 3RD- early 2ND mill B.C.
Separately made hair of green chlorite for a large composite stone figure. These have often lost their hair, since they were not tightly fixated and would have fallen off and cracked.
A very detailed and elaborate wig or hair carved with groves.
Size: 32 x 25 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
Separately made hair of green chlorite for a large composite stone figure. These have often lost their hair, since they were not tightly fixated and would have fallen off and cracked.
A very detailed and elaborate wig or hair carved with groves.
Size: 32 x 25 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479880
Senatus Consulto
$185.00
$185.00
A fine intact stone wig / seperate hair, BACTRIA-MARGIANA, late 3RD- early 2ND mill B.C.
Separately made hair of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite stone figures which are often missing their wigs / hairs actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 20 x 20 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
Separately made hair of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite stone figures which are often missing their wigs / hairs actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 20 x 20 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
